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Fifty Ukrainian experts are present in Iran to investigate the crash of a Ukrainian International Airlines airliner, which claimed the lives of 176 people, Wednesday, January 8.
" Our team has now obtained access to the black boxes " and to the debris from the aircraft, said Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaïko during a press conference. “ All of this information is being analyzed . "
Ukraine has sent fifty experts to Iran to participate in the investigation into the crash of a Ukrainian International Airlines Boeing 737 to Kiev, which killed 176 people, most of them Iranians and Canadians .
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They will be supported by the Canadian Transportation Safety Board, which accepted an Iranian invitation to join the investigation, as well as by the United States Transportation Safety Agency.
This Friday, the Office of Investigation and Analysis (BEA), a French organization, also appointed a representative for these investigations. Paris is concerned, because the engine of the device was partially designed in France.
Two diametrically opposed theses
So far, at least two theses are present: that of the Iranian authorities who categorically reject the possibility of a missile launch. Iranian civil aviation number one talks about a plane on fire for more than a minute before hitting the ground.
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But there is another scenario formulated from Western sources: that of an anti-aircraft defense shot, potentially by mistake. A surface-to-air missile that could have caused the disaster in a moment of extreme tension, just hours after the Iranian missile attacks on American targets in Iraq.