In an interview with the Izvestia newspaper, the Iranian ambassador was asked if the process of transferring “black boxes” from the Ukrainian plane to Kiev was completed.
“As announced back in March ... the black box decryption process was stopped due to the spread of the coronavirus. However, we are ready to resume discussion of these issues, ”he replied.
On March 30, Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development, Mohammad Eslami, announced that work on decoding the flight recorders of the Ukrainian airliner was suspended due to the spread of the coronavirus infection COVID-19.
In February, five countries called on Iran to provide recorders from a downed aircraft.
On January 8, a plane crash occurred in Tehran, which killed 176 people. Iran acknowledged that the Iranian air defense system mistakenly shot down a passenger plane of Ukraine International Airlines, mistaking it for a cruise missile.