Iran Wants to Handle Black Box Data After Plane Crash Blamed on Missile

Iran said on Friday it wanted to download black box recordings itself from a Ukrainian airliner that crashed.
Iran Wants to Handle Black Box Data After Plane Crash Blamed on Missile
Debris is seen from a plane crash on the outskirts of Tehran, Iran, Jan. 8, 2020. Mohammad Nasiri/AP Photos
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DUBAI—Iran said on Friday it wanted to download black box recordings itself from a Ukrainian airliner that crashed, killing all 176 people aboard, after Canada and others said the plane was brought down by an Iranian missile, probably by mistake.

Iran, which has denied the Boeing 737-800 was downed by a missile, said it could take one or two months to extract information from the voice and flight data recorders. It said it could ask Russia, Canada, France or Ukraine if it needed help.