ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says Iran doesn’t have experts who can analyze the data recorders from a civilian airliner it shot down last month and it’s time to send the black boxes out of the country. Iranian investigators recovered the black boxes quickly and say they’re damaged but functional. Among the 176 people killed when the airliner was shot down were 57 Canadian citizens and 138 people who were connecting to Canada via Kyiv. Iran admitted, after initial denials, that an air-defence battery shot at the plane shortly after it took off from Tehran’s international airport. “The best antidote to conspiracy (theories) is transparency,” Champagne said, a message he said he’s sent the Iranian government.

Source: National Post February 09, 2020 13:00 UTC