Iran Has Sent Black Boxes of Downed Plane to France: Official

General view of the debris of the Ukraine International Airlines, flight PS752, Boeing 737-800 plane that crashed after take-off from Iran's Imam Khomeini airport, on the outskirts of Tehran, is seen in this screen grab obtained from a social media video, Iran, on Jan. 8, 2020. Social media video via Reuters/File Photo

Iran has sent the black boxes from a Ukrainian airliner that it accidentally downed in January to France for analysis, a Foreign Ministry official said on Saturday.

Some 176 people were killed when the Revolutionary Guards, Iran’s most powerful military force, fired missiles at the Ukraine International Airlines mistaking it for a hostile target while on high alert during a confrontation with the United States.