Flight data recorders of downed Ukrainian jet to remain in Iran – MP
Flight data recorders of a Ukrainian passenger plane Boeing 737 that crashed near Tehran earlier this month will remain in Tehran and will be decoded on Iranian soil, Farajollah Rajabi, a member of the Iranian parliament’s development commission, told Tasnim news agency, TASS reported.
"Our policy is that the Ukrainian plane’s black box would remain in Iran and be read here," MP said, according to the report.
The Ministry of Road and Urban Development will be in charge of decoding the black boxes, Rajabi noted.
On January 22, Iranian Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mohammad Eslami announced that the flight data recorders would be decoded in Iran. Earlier, Head of the Iranian Civil Aviation Organization's Incident Investigation Unit, Hasan Rezaiefar said Iranian authorities would hand over to Ukraine data from the black boxes.