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Iran seeks help reading plane’s black boxes amid pressure to hand them over
DUBAI: Iran has asked the US and French authorities for equipment to download information from black boxes on a downed Ukrainian airliner, a request that will add to international frustration at Tehran’s failure to send the recorders abroad for analysis.
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Iran considers dual nationals on downed Ukrainian plane to be Iranians
Iran considers dual nationals aboard a Ukrainian plane that was shot down accidentally this month to be Iranian citizens, the Foreign Ministry spokesman said today. Iran does not recognise dual nationality. Many of the 176 people killed in the disaster
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Iran has made arrests over plane disaster as protests rage on
Iran said today it had arrested an undisclosed number of suspects accused of a role in shooting down a Ukrainian airliner, as anti-government demonstrations triggered by the disaster entered the fourth day. Wednesday’s shooting down of Ukraine International Airlines flight
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‘Our enemy is here’: Iranians demand that leaders quit after plane downed
DUBAI: Protests erupted across Iran for a second day yesterday, increasing pressure on the Islamic Republic’s leadership after it admitted its military shot down a Ukrainian airliner by accident, despite days of denials that Iranian forces were to blame. “They
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Iran to probe black boxes after missile blamed for plane crash
DUBAI: Tehran said yesterday it wanted to download black box recordings itself from a Ukrainian airliner crash that killed all 176 people aboard, amid Western suspicions the plane was brought down by an Iranian missile, probably by mistake. The crash
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France ready to contribute to Ukrainian jet crash probe
France is available to contribute to the probe on a Ukrainian airliner that crashed on Wednesday in Iran, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said today. “It is important that as much clarity as possible is made and as quickly
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US to join probe of Ukrainian jet disaster that killed 176
The NTSB said in a statement its Response Operations Centre had received formal notification from Iran of Wednesday’s crash of the Boeing 737-800 that killed all 176 on board. “The NTSB has designated an accredited representative to the investigation of
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Trudeau: Iran likely downed Ukraine airliner with missiles
A Ukrainian airliner that crashed in Iran, killing all 176 people aboard, was likely brought down by an Iranian missile, Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, said yesterday, citing intelligence from Canadian and other sources. The destruction of the airliner, which
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Iran investigation: Ukrainian jet was on fire before the crash
A Ukrainian airliner was on fire immediately before it crashed southwest of Tehran, killing all 176 on board, according to an initial report by Iranian investigators. The Ukrainian International Airlines Boeing 737-800, flying to Kiev and carrying mostly Iranians and
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Boeing jet crashes in Iran with no survivors, security sources see technical cause
A Ukrainian airliner fell to earth in a fireball shortly after take-off from Tehran yesterday, killing all 176 people on board in a crash that sparked an international scramble to establish the cause. The Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800, en
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