It is the start of a meticulous mission. Experts began their work on Monday to extract data from the black boxes of the Ukrainian Boeing shot down in January above Tehran, in a laboratory near Paris, announced the French Bureau of Investigation and Analysis (BEA). .
In a tweet, the BEA, which provides technical assistance, says that "the technical work on the Cockpit Voice Recorder" (CVR), which records the conversations between pilots and the noises on the plane, started with a "visual inspection »And opening the recorder.
🔴 @ Boeing # 737 UR-PSR @fly_uia / CVR & FDR officially delivered to @BEA_Aero by Iran's AAIB. pic.twitter.com/JpTaXtg94t
- BEA ✈️ 🚁🛩 🇫🇷 (@BEA_Aero) July 20, 2020Material given by Iran to experts
Photos, showing an apparently preserved orange cylinder on the outside, accompany the BEA tweet, which is part of an "Iran-led security investigation".
🔴 @ Boeing # 737 UR-PSR @fly_uia / Start of the technical work on the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR): visual inspection, assessment & opening / Communication on behalf of Iran's AAIB. pic.twitter.com/WynR3ilU9u
- BEA ✈️ 🚁🛩 🇫🇷 (@BEA_Aero) July 20, 2020The CVR and the “Flight Data Recorder” (FDR), which collects all the flight parameters (speed, altitude, engine speed, trajectory, etc.), had earlier been officially submitted to the BEA for analysis.
International cooperation
Members of the US Bureau of Investigation, the NTSB, Boeing, the International Civil Aviation Organization, the engine manufacturer Safran and British, Swedish and Canadian investigation offices are assisting the operations, in addition to the Iranians, according to the BEA.
"Ukraine is eagerly awaiting the results of the decryption of black boxes and the start of the negotiation process with Iran", greeted on Facebook Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, for whom the sending of black boxes to France and their analysis by the French BEA, with an "impeccable reputation", was "the right step to carry out the investigation".
Airplane shot down "by mistake" in January by the Iranian army, 176 dead
Iranian armed forces admitted on January 11 that they had “mistakenly” shot down three days earlier the Boeing providing Ukrainian Airlines flight PS 752 between Tehran and Kiev, shortly after taking off from Tehran International Airport. The tragedy claimed the lives of the 176 people on board the plane, mostly Iranians and Canadians, many of them binational.
Hit by an American embargo, Tehran immediately announced after the crash that it refused to send the black boxes to the United States, even if the plane and the engines were American-designed. But Iran does not have the technical means to extract and decrypt data from the black boxes.
Iran requested technical assistance from BEA, French
After diplomatic arms passes between Canada and Ukraine, which demanded that the black boxes be sent abroad for analysis, the French Bureau of Investigation and Analysis (BEA) had indicated in late June that the Iran had officially requested technical assistance from Iran to repair and download the black box data.
Few laboratories in the world have the technical capacity to repair damaged recorders in order to be able to extract data from them. The latest Iranian Civil Aviation report, released in mid-July, said that the "key element" behind the tragedy was "human error," namely the poor setting of a military radar followed by other malfunctions.
Two missile shots
The black boxes should contain information about the final moments of the aircraft before it was struck by two surface-to-air missiles and crashed.
Iran's air defenses were on high alert that day after the Islamic Republic fired missiles at an Iraqi base housing American soldiers to avenge the mighty Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, killed in a strike of American drone in Baghdad on January 3.
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