Iran asked the US and France to send support equipment because it could not download data from the black box of a Ukrainian plane that was shot by mistake.

The Iranian Civil Aviation Administration yesterday announced on its official website that it did not have the necessary equipment to decipher the US-made Boeing 737-800. The announcement came in a second report by the Civil Aviation Administration of Iran about the tragedy of an Ukraine International Airline (UIA) plane that was accidentally shot by the air defense on January 8.

The agency said it had asked the U.S. National Transportation Safety Commission and the French Civil Aviation Safety Investigation and Analysis Department (BEA) to send equipment to support the data download from the black box, but has not yet received it. get positive feedback.

UIA Boeing 737-800 aircraft number PS752 was hit by a rocket after taking off from Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran, Iran, on the morning of January 8. Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) admitted to mistakenly shooting the plane as a US cruise missile, killing 176 people.

Iran has given mixed signals about decoding the black box of the crashed aircraft. The country once said it would hand over the black box to Ukraine, but this has not been done, prompting Kiev repeatedly urging Tehran to act quickly to ensure the independence and objectivity of the investigation.

The leader of the Iranian Civil Aviation Department recently announced it was trying to analyze the black box data itself and only forward it to other countries, preferably Ukraine and France, if assistance is needed. According to the regulations of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the black box aircraft will be analyzed in the country where the accident occurred.