Iran says no missile hit downed Ukrainian Boeing; may request help to download data from damaged black boxes
Iran, which denies Ukraine International Airline's Boeing 737-800 was downed by a missile, says it could take one or two months to extract information from the voice and"damaged" flight data recorders.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, citing intelligence from Canada and other sources, has also blamed an Iranian missile for bringing down the plane that had 63 Canadians on board, although he said it "may well have been unintentional".“What is obvious for us, and what we can say with certainty, is that no missile hit the plane,” Ali Abedzadeh, head of Iran Civil Aviation Organisation, told a press conference.
"We prefer to download the black boxes in Iran. But if we see that we can't do that because the boxes are damaged, then we will seek help," Abedzadeh said. On social media, ordinary Iranians voiced anger at authorities for not closing the airport after Iran's missile launches. Many passengers were Iranians with dual nationality.This map shows the sites Iranian missiles hit in Iraq, the area where Ukraine International Airlines flight took off in Tehran before it crashed and where some of the crash debris landed in Parand. A delegation from Canada was heading to Iran to help with the probe, the Iranian foreign ministry said on Friday.
Boeing said it would support the NTSB. The company is still reeling from two deadly crashes of 737 MAX planes, including the one in Ethiopia, that led to the plane's grounding in March 2019.A US official, citing satellite data, said Washington had concluded with a high degree of certainty that anti-aircraft missiles brought down the plane in error.
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