Friday, January 10, 2020

Iran Has Invited The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board To Participate In The Crash Of Ukraine Passenger Jet

Red Crescent workers check plastic bags at the site where the Ukraine International Airlines plane crashed after take-off from Iran's Imam Khomeini airport, on the outskirts of Tehran, Iran January 8. The Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800, en route to Kiev and carrying mostly Iranians and Iranian-Canadians, fell to earth in a fireball shortly after take-off from Tehran, killing all 176 people on board. Nazanin Tabatabaee/WANA

Reuters: U.S. to join probe of jet disaster, no missile link: Iran official

PARIS (Reuters) - Iran has invited the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board to take part in its investigation into the crash of a Ukrainian jetliner and the U.S. agency has agreed to assign an investigator, an Iranian official said on Thursday.

“The NTSB has replied to our chief investigator and has announced an accredited representative,” Farhad Parvaresh, Iran’s representative at the International Civil Aviation Organization, part of the United Nations, told Reuters.

The NTSB declined comment.

A person briefed on the matter confirmed the NTSB had agreed to take part but said it was unclear what if anything its representative would be able to do under U.S. sanctions.

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WNU Editor: Iran does not have a choice. No airline in the world is going to fly into Iran unless this is resolved.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You might ever be able to commit the perfect murder, but after the fact you can do enough cleaning so as to wipe away sufficient evidence, so as to get away with it.

Is the Iranian leadership just now forced to come to this conclusion or are they forced, acquiescing, because they have had time to come up with a story and do some forensic high jinks?

Bob Huntley said...

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