A TIMELINE OF FLIGHT #PS752 & ITS BLACK BOXES
JANUARY 8
🔹Iranian missiles hit Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 shortly after takeoff from Tehran, killing all 176 on board
🔹The black boxes are recovered at the crash site
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🔹It's been 5 weeks since the IRGC shot down Flight #PS752 killing all 176 people onboard
🔹The black boxes have not been examined to date
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🔹Canada's FM & PM @JustinTrudeau meet with @JZarif while attending #MSC2020
🔹@FP_Champagne says he reiterated that Canada is seeking closure, accountability, transparency & justice for victims of this tragedy, incl. a thorough, credible & transparent investigation
🔹Global Affairs: "The two also discussed download and analysis of #PS752’s black boxes"
🔹@FP_Champagne reiterated preferred option is for Iran to make use of facilities offered by France, which possesses the technical capacity to perform this work
🔹PM Trudeau: "I went by to impress upon FM of Iran how important it was that we work together & we ensure that investigation is complete"
🔹@FP_Champagne: Iranians no longer appear to be arguing that black boxes need to be analyzed in Iran
cbc.ca/news/politics/…
🔹UPDATE: A meeting of the International Coordination and Response Group for the victims of Flight #PS752 has been scheduled on the sidelines of #MSC2020
🔹@FP_Champagne will attend
🔹Saturday, February 15, 2020 at 14:45 am ET
🔹@JZarif acknowledges Iran isn't able to extract info from black box, but says Tehran won't hand over box to outside governments
🔹He defends Iran's decision not to hand over black box and notes most of the passengers had Iranian passports
nbcnews.com/news/world/tru…
🔹Zarif: "We've asked for help, why haven't the U.S. helped us? This is a humanitarian issue. Why haven't they given us the software? Why haven't they given us the expertise?"
🔹Zarif: For the moment "it's just sitting there"
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nbcnews.com/news/world/tru…
🔹@FP_Champagne: Not possible for equipment needed to decode the box to be transported to Tehran
🔹"The black box, the property of Ukraine Airlines, should be transported to a 3rd country -prob. France-for experts to analyze its contents"
theguardian.com/world/2020/feb…
🔹Mohammad Eslami (Iran's Minister of Roads and Urban Development) says: "It is possible to send the black box to a third country"
🔹The same minister claimed on January 22nd that the black box will not be sent abroad
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irna.ir/news/83678528/…
🔹Iran's Defence Minister: Black box had “sustained noticeable damage and the defence industry has been requested to help in reconstructing [it]” (@Reuters)
NOTE: On January 10, officials said Flight #PS752's black box was intact. (See below)