KIEV: Ukrainian experts have been given access to the black box flight recorders of the Ukrainian plane that crashed in Iran, Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said on Friday , adding that they were receiving"full cooperation" from the Iranian authorities.
The Ukrainian experts had also been given access to the plane's fragments and the crash site, Prystaiko said.Prystaiko also said that the Ukrainian team had been granted access to the recordings of the radio exchange between the pilots and traffic control.He said the plane's fragments had been scattered over a wide area including"certain settlements."
Prystaiko addressed reporters after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke by phone with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and after US officials handed Kiev"important" information about the crash earlier Friday. Zelensky said on Facebook that the possibility the plane had been shot down by a missile was not ruled out"but it has not yet been confirmed"."We are not rejecting any of the leads, all leads are being considered," he said.
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