It's always impressed me... 
Posted on 02/21/2020 4:08:04 PM PST by nuconvert
The black box of a Ukrainian passenger airliner mistakenly shot down over Iran last month is damaged and Iran will not hand it over to another country despite pressure for access, state media quoted top Iranian ministers as saying on February 19.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said last week that he had "impressed upon" Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif that a complete and independent investigation into the shooting down of the airliner had to be carried out.
Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 was brought down after it took off from Tehran on January 8, killing everyone on board. The 176 victims included 82 Iranian citizens and 63 Canadians, many of them of Iranian origin.
The crash occurred with Iran's air-defense forces on high alert following an Iranian ballistic-missile attack a few hours earlier against U.S. forces in Iraq. The strikes came days after Iran's most prominent military commander, Qasem Soleimani, was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad.
"We have a right to read the black box ourselves. We have a right to be present at any examination of the black box," Zarif said.
"If we are supposed to give the black box to others for them to read it in our place then this is something we will definitely not do," he said.
However, Iran is in discussions with other countries, particularly Ukraine, about the investigation, Zarif said.
Defense Minister Amir Hatami said the flight data recording box had "sustained noticeable damage and the defense industry has been requested to help in reconstructing (it)."
"The reconstruction of the black box is supposed to take place first and then the reading," Hatami said.
Why would they? They aren’t civil.
Wonder if there are things on there that the Iranians cannot afford to let out into the public sphere?...
How to win friends and influence people.
Curious. Given that Iran has already admitted to shooting down the plane one has to wonder what else might be on those recordings...
“Damaged” huh? Imagine that.
haha. The Iranian regime is really ridiculous
“Justin Trudeau said last week that he had “impressed upon” Iranian Foreign Minister “
Oh I’ll bet the ballet dancer scared the crap out of them.
Is that the first one that was ever damaged?
I recall a standup comic (not sure who) that wanted to be in the black box when he flew - he said that was the only part of the plane certain to not get damaged.
It's always impressed me...
Defense Minister Amir Hatami said the flight data recording box had “sustained noticeable damage and the defense industry has been requested to help in reconstructing (it).”
“The reconstruction of the black box is supposed to take place first and then the reading,” Hatami said.
Who does he think he is? Nanzi Pelousy?
Yep. It was no mistake. There was someone or something on that plane that needed to “go away “.
It probably had Hillary’s email server. .....
Waiting it out.
That would be no. There have been many that were damaged beyond recovery of useful data, destroyed or lost. Most *are* damaged in crashes but if recovered will yield useful information.
Here is a **very** incomplete list of missing/lost, destroyed and damaged beyond recovery FDRs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unrecovered_flight_recorders
Iran will turn it over after they get done completly damaging it.
What is left of the Black Box is now toast, Iranian Guard style.
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