Black boxes from the Ukrainian Boeing shot down in January over Tehran have arrived in Paris for analysis at the French Bureau of Investigation and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA), reported on Saturday (July 18th). BEA, confirming information from an Iranian deputy foreign minister, Mr. Baharvand. Black boxes “Will be at the BEA from Monday” where an international team of around twenty people will be able to decipher them, according to the French organization.
Iranian Armed Forces Acknowledged On January 11 ” by mistake “, three days earlier, the Boeing flying Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 between Tehran and Kiev shortly after take off from Tehran International Airport. The tragedy claimed the lives of the 176 people on board the aircraft, mostly Iranians and Canadians, many of them binational.
The BEA reported at the end of June that Iran had officially requested its technical assistance to repair and download the data from the black boxes. “The French government had very good cooperation with the Iranian delegation, for which I thank France”, added Mr. Baharvand.
“Human error”
The Iranian ministry said in June that the process of sending the black boxes had been delayed by the pandemic caused by the new coronavirus, which hit Iran hard and resulted in the cancellation of most international flights.
The latest Iranian Civil Aviation report, released in mid-July, concluded that the” key element “ at the origin of the drama was a ” human error “, namely the bad adjustment of a military radar followed by other malfunctions. The black boxes should contain information about the last moments of the plane before it was struck by two surface-to-air missiles and crashed.
Iran’s air defenses were on high alert that day after the Islamic Republic fired missiles at an Iraqi base housing American soldiers, intended to avenge the powerful Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, killed the January 3 during an American drone strike in Baghdad.
