Boeing Ukrainian shot down: Iran has sent the black boxes to France

Iran has requested technical assistance from the Bureau d'enquêtes et d'analyses-French for repair and download data from the black boxes.

Iran has sent in France black boxes of the Boeing Ukrainian shot down in January over Tehran, said on Saturday, a deputy minister of iranian foreign Affairs in the daily reformist Etemad.

"The black boxes have been transported to Paris yesterday by officials of the civil Aviation and by a judge, and the operation of decryption will begin Monday," said Mohsen Baharvand, deputy minister of foreign Affairs in charge of legal and international Affairs.

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The iranian armed forces have recognized at the January 11, having shot down "by error" of three days earlier the Boeing operating as flight PS 752 of Ukraine International Airlines between Tehran and Kiev shortly after its takeoff from the international airport of Tehran. The tragedy claimed the lives of 176 people on board the aircraft, in the majority of Iranians and Canadians, many with dual nationality.

The Bureau of investigations and analyses (BEA) French said in late June that Iran had formally requested its technical assistance to repair and download data from the black boxes. "The French government has had a very good cooperation with the iranian delegation, for which I thank France," said Baharvand.

"human Error"

work on the black boxes is expected to begin on 20 July, according to the BEA. The iranian ministry had indicated in June that the process of sending the black boxes had been delayed by the outbreak of new coronavirus, which has hit Iran, and that has resulted in the cancellation of most international flights.

The last report of the civil Aviation of iran, published mid-July indicated that the"key element" to the cause of the tragedy was "human error", namely, the improper adjustment of a military radar monitoring of other malfunctions.

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The black boxes should contain information on the last moments of the plane before it was hit by two missiles, ground-to-air and crashed. On this day, the air defenses of Iran were in a state of high alert after the shooting by the islamic Republic of missiles on a base in iraq housing u.s. soldiers for revenge against the powerful general iranian Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a strike drone in the u.s. to Baghdad on 3 January.

Date Of Update: 18 July 2020, 15:58