Iran says it will not give black box from crashed airliner to Boeing

[Eugene]

LBN thread: Ukrainian Airlines plane crashes in Tehran shortly after takeoff

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Source: The Guardian

Iran says it will not give black box from crashed airliner to Boeing

Comments come as Ukrainian president says priority is to find ‘those responsible for this terrible catastrophe’

Peter Beaumont in London, Michael Safi in Beirut and Rebecca Ratcliffe
Wed 8 Jan 2020 15.18 GMT
Last modified on Wed 8 Jan 2020 15.24 GMT

Iran’s aviation authority will not hand over flight recorders from the Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 jet that crashed moments after take-off from Tehran killing all 176 passengers and crew, either to the aircraft’s manufacturer or US aviation authorities.

The announcement by Iran’s Civil Aviation Organisation head, Ali Abedzadeh, follows the launch of an urgent inquiry into the crash by the Ukrainian government, which itself rowed back on an earlier statement ruling out an act of terror.

Announcing on his Facebook page that Ukraine would send a team of experts to Iran later on Wednesday, the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said: “Our priority is to establish the truth and those responsible for this terrible catastrophe.”

The developments have fuelled uncertainty around the circumstances of the crash, which came only hours after Iran had fired a volley of intermediate range ballistic missiles at bases used by US forces in neighbouring Iraq in relation for America’s assassination of the powerful Iranian general Qassem Suleimani in Baghdad on Friday.

Commenting after the discovery of the black box flight recorders at the crash site, Abedzadeh said: “We will not give the black boxes to the manufacturer (Boeing) and the Americans. It’s not yet clear which country the black box will go to for the investigation,” he added.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/08/iran-says-it-will-not-give-black-box-from-crashed-airliner-to-boeing

[getagrip_already]

1. yeah, can't really blame them......

Not that we would alter the contents or spin the results (unless trump ordered it), it's just they don't have a lot of trust we won't.

There are more neutral countries that can analyze the data.

Plus if it were hit by something, it would be pretty obvious. It might just be a cover up.

[Sherman A1]

2. Good

Boeing doesn't deserve any trust to do the right thing.