International investigators in Paris will finally be able to review the black box of a downed Ukrainian passenger jet that was shot out of the sky …
International investigators in Paris will finally be able to review the black box of a downed Ukrainian passenger jet that was shot out of the sky by Iran, who misidentified the plane as an incoming missile.
Iranian authorities sent the black box to France on Friday, signaling a new phase of the investigation over six months after the incident in January that killed 176 people, including 82 Iranians,57 Canadians and 11 Ukrainians.
France is one of the few countries with the capability to read damaged black boxes. The information gleaned from the device could shed light on factors, such as the airplane’s flight path and altitude, that rendered the plane the target of such a fatal shooting.
