Section: Africa&ME
Iran says tries to decode black box of crashed plane before sending it abroad
Iran is trying to decode the black box of the crashed passenger plane before planning to send it to a second country, an aviation official told official IRNA news agency on Sunday. “Iran holds the black box of the Ukrainian Boeing 737 passenger plane and has currently no plane to send it out,” Hassan Rezaeefar, director of Incident Investigation...
Iran aims to examine downed plane’s black boxes, no plan yet to send them abroad
* Canada, others want black boxes examined abroad * Ottawa says France has expertise to decode data * Iranian official earlier said recorders headed to Kiev * Disaster adds to pressure amid standoff with US Iran said on Sunday it was trying to analyse the black boxes of a Ukrainian airliner that its military shot down this month, denying a report...
Denying previous report, Iran to examine downed plane’s black boxes itself
Iran said on Sunday it was trying to analyse the black boxes of a Ukrainian airliner that its military shot down this month, denying a report that a decision had been taken to send the voice and flight data recorders to Ukraine, reported Reuters. Canada, which had 57 citizens on the January 8 flight in which all 176 aboard were killed, said on...
Bodies of Ukrainian victims of Iran plane crash returned home
The bodies of the 11 Ukrainian citizens who died when a passenger plane was accidentally shot down by Iran this month were brought back to Ukraine on Sunday in a solemn ceremony at Kiev airport, reported Reuters. All 176 on board the Ukraine International Airlines flight from Tehran to Kiev were killed when the Boeing 737-800 was shot down on...
Bodies of Ukrainian victims of Iran plane crash returned home
The bodies of the 11 Ukrainian citizens who died when a passenger plane was accidentally shot down by Iran this month were brought back to Ukraine on Sunday in a solemn ceremony at Kiev airport. All 176 on board the Ukraine International Airlines flight from Tehran to Kiev were killed when the Boeing 737-800 was shot down on Jan. 8, at a time...
Bodies of Ukrainian victims of Iran plane crash returned home
The bodies of the 11 Ukrainian citizens who died when a passenger plane was accidentally shot down by Iran this month were brought back to Ukraine …read more Source:: Standard...
Five Arrested For Suspected Terrorism In Kenya
Kenyan authorities have arrested five people suspected of preparing a terror attack in Nairobi, according to a police report seen by AFP on Sunday. The group comprises three men — a US citizen, a Somali and their Kenyan driver — and two Somali women who were believed to be on a reconnaissance mission for an attack in the north of the capital, the...
Iran Plane Crash: Ukraine Receives Bodies Of Victims
Candles flicker in front of the names of the victims of the Ukrainian plane shot down in Iran before a meeting of the International Coordination and Response Group, at the High Commission of Canada in London, on January 16, 2020.Tolga Akmen / AFP The flag-draped coffins of the 11 Ukrainians who died in a plane mistakenly shot down by Iran during...
Iran seeks to examine downed Ukrainian plane’s black boxes – report
Dubai – Iran is trying to analyse the black boxes of a Ukrainian airliner that was shot down this month, the state IRNA news agency reported on Sunday, denying a report that a decision had been taken to send the plane’s recorders to Ukraine. Canada, which had 57 citizens on the plane in which 176 people were killed, and other nations...
Bodies of Ukrainian victims of Iran plane crash repatriated
Solemn ceremony at airport near Kyiv comes as Iran denies earlier reports it would send flight recorders to Ukraine. …read more Source:: AL...
