They are expect­ed to contai­n inform­ation about the last moment­s before the Ukrain­e jetlin­er was struck by a missil­eMONTREAL: Iran pledged Wednesday at a meeting of UN civil aviation agency to hand over black boxes from downed Flight 752 to Ukraine or France for analysis – a move welcomed by Canada and Ukraine. They are expected to contain information about the last moments before the Ukraine International Airlines jetliner was struck by a missile and crashed shortly after taking off from the Tehran airport on January 8. Iran has admitted that the two black boxes were damaged and that it lacked the technical ability to extract data from them, but for two months it has waffled about what to do with them. Canada repeatedly asked Iran to hand the plane’s black boxes over to Ukraine or France for expert analysis. But in the early hours of January 11, the Iranian military admitted that the plane was shot down due to “human error,” killing 176 people.

Source: The Express Tribune March 12, 2020 05:15 UTC