The Transportation Safety Board said in a statement it understands that the plane’s flight-data recorders — commonly known as black boxes — are still in Iran and said Iran is assessing options for their download and analysis, including doing it in Iran. ADIranian officials have offered contradictory remarks on whether they’ll send the plane’s flight data and cockpit voice recorders abroad to be analyzed. ADCanada’s Transportation Safety Board said it will deploy a second team of investigators to examine the recorders whenever and wherever that activity takes place. Two other Canadian safety board investigators are heading back to Canada after six days in Tehran and two in Kyiv. Three days later, Iran admitted responsibility after Western leaders said there was strong evidence the plane was hit by a surface-to-air missile.

Source: Washington Post January 23, 2020 21:22 UTC