(ANSA-AFP) - KIEV, 15 GEN - Ukraine has asked Iran to hand
over the black box flight recorders of a Ukrainian passenger
plane that crashed after being hit by an Iranian missile,
prosecutors said on Wednesday.
The Office of the General Prosecutor said it would take "all
measures" to properly decode the black boxes and "preserve
evidence in the investigation of the accident". The Ukraine
International Airlines Boeing 737, which had been bound for
Kiev, slammed into a field shortly after taking off from Tehran
last Wednesday, killing all 176 people on board.
The downing of the plane came hours after Tehran had launched
a barrage of missiles at bases housing American troops in Iraq,
in retaliation for the killing of commander Qasem Soleimani in a
US strike. Iran initially denied Western claims that the
airliner had been downed by a missile but eventually conceded
that the plane had been accidentally shot down. (ANSA-AFP).
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