Monday, January 20, 2020

Iran Will Not Send Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752's Black Boxes To Overseas Investigators

The crate containing purportedly the two black boxes recovered from the crashed Ukrainian airliner, Boeing 737-800, is seen in this still image taken from a video, in Tehran, Iran January 10, 2020. IRIB VIA WANA/Handout via REUTERS

ABC News Online: Iran aborts plan to send black boxes of downed Ukranian plane to overseas investigators

Iran appears to have backtracked on its promise to send the flight recorders from a downed Ukranian jet it shot down for overseas analysis — a day after officials said they would be sent to Kiev.

Hassan Rezaeifar, head of the accident investigations unit of Iran's civil aviation authority, was quoted by the state-run IRNA news agency on Sunday (local time) as saying, "the flight recorders from the Ukrainian Boeing are in Iranian hands and we have no plans to send them out".

He said Iran was working to recover the data and cabin recordings, and that it may send the flight recorders — commonly known as black boxes — to Ukraine or France.

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Update #1: Iran backtracks on plans to send black boxes from downed jet to Ukraine (DW)
Update #2: Iran to keep black box from downed Ukrainian passenger jet as victims' bodies are returned home (Washington Examiner)

WNU Editor: I cannot say that I am surprised that they have decided to not send the black boxes to outside investigators. They cannot been seen losing control of the narrative, especially now with the current unrest in Iran.

3 comments:

Roger Smith said...


I'd say they lost the narrative from the beginning.

Anonymous said...

Also I wouldn't be surprised if the " black boxes" shown are fake.

Bob Huntley said...

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