Tehran, Iran (AP) – Iran retrieved some data, adding some of the cockpit talks of the Ukrainian plane that was shot down in January by revolutionary guards in January, killing the other 176 people on board, an Iranian official said. . Sunday.
According to a report published in that of the Civil Aviation Organization of Iran, which describes the official’s statements as part of the final report that Tehran plans to publish on the downing of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752.
Progression occurs months after the January 8 accident near Tehran. The Iranian government had first denied responsibility, and only changed course a few days later, after Western countries presented sufficient evidence that Iran had shot down the aircraft.
The shooting took place the same night Iran introduced a ballistic missile attack on U.S. infantrymen in Iraq, its reaction to the U.S. drone strike that killed Guard General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad on January 3.
At the time, Iranian troops were preparing for a U.S. counterattack and gave the impression that they had flown through a missile. Iran, however, did not recognize that, on the grounds that, only after the missile attack, its air defense was sufficiently alert and had allowed the resumption of scheduled air traffic in the past, a reference to the Ukrainian aircraft authorized to take off from Tehran in the past. in the midst of an unprecedented situation. Crisis.
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The Ukrainian passenger plane reportedly targeted through two missiles. The aircraft had just taken off from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport when the first missile exploded, which probably damaged its radio equipment. The moment the missile probably hit the plane directly, while videos from that night showed the plane exploding in a fireball before crashing into a playground and farmland on the outskirts of the Iranian capital.
For days after the crash, Iranian investigators combed the site, sifting the debris from the plane.
The head of Iran’s civil aviation organization, Captain Touraj Dehghani Zangeneh, said Sunday that the plane’s black boxes had only 19 moments of verbal exchange after the first explosion, the moment the missile hit the plane 25 moments later. The report that quotes it doesn’t give details.
He said the first explosion of a missile sent shrapnel to the plane, probably interrupting the plane’s recorders. He did not reveal any main points of the verbal exchange in the cockpit that was recovered.
Refunds from the United States, Ukraine, France, Canada, Britain and Sweden, countries whose citizens were killed in the turn of fate, provided the process of gathering registration knowledge, Zangeneh said.
In the months following the plane’s downing, Iran has been grappling with vast domestic economic unrest and a primary physical fitness crisis. It has the largest and deadliest coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East, with more than 358,000 cases shown, adding 20,643 deaths. The Iranian government is also grappling with crushing U.S. sanctions, such as a tension from the Trump administration to impose so-called “backward” sanctions on Iran for what Washington calls Iran’s violation of the 2015 nuclear deal with global powers.
Last month, an initial report from the Iranian investigation said a poorly aligned missile battery, poor communication between troops and their commanders, and a resolution for chimney clearance led to the plane’s fatal crash.
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According to the report, the surface-to-air missile battery targeting the Boeing 737-800 had moved and had not been properly redirected. Missile battery officials failed to control their command center, mistakenly knew civilian escape as a risk and opened fire twice without getting approval from those responsible, he said.
Iran’s Western intelligence officials and analysts shot down the plane with a Russian-made Tor formula known to NATO as SA-15. In 2007, Iran received 29 Tor M1 teams to Russia for an estimated $700 million contract value. The formula is fixed on a tracked vehicle and carries a radar and a package of 8 missiles.
The initial report did not imply why the Guard had moved the air defense system, it is believed that this dominance close to the airport houses both the normal army and the bases of the paramilitary forces.
He also noted that the Ukrainian flight had done nothing ordinary until the missile was launched, its transponder and other knowledge spread. The plane’s black boxes were taken to Paris in July to the French firm investigating the turn of the destination OF the BEA, where they are being examined.
“Knowledge-recovery activities were carried out with the goal of security and incident prevention,” Zangeneh said, adding an opposed appeal to “any political use of the process.”
Later that day, Iranian state television quoted Zangeneh as saying knowledge showed that the Ukrainian plane was on the correct flight path. After 19 seconds of the first explosion, the black box communication formula was closed, he said.
The aircraft brings two other flight recorders, called black boxes: the flight knowledge recorder and the cockpit voice recorder.
“The three team members in the cockpit controlled the flight to the end,” Zangeneh said.
He added that Iran’s airspace now “safe and tidy” for foreign flights.