{"id":58204,"date":"2020-01-11T12:24:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T04:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58204"},"modified":"2020-01-11T12:24:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T04:24:21","slug":"iran-plane-crash-more-time-needed-for-investigation-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58204","title":{"rendered":"Iran plane crash: ‘More time needed for investigation’ \u2013 Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Iran says the data from the “black box” will be analysed at home, but Ukraine wants to do this in Kyiv
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\u00a0KIEV, Jan 11 (NNN-AGENCIES)\u00a0—<\/strong>It is too soon to draw any conclusions on what brought down a Ukrainian passenger plane in Iran on Wednesday, Ukraine’s foreign minister has said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We have so many different versions of what could [have] happened to the plane that we need some time to really understand,” Vadym Prystaiko said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His comments come a day after Western powers said they had strong evidence that the plane was hit by an Iranian missile – a claim rejected by Tehran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All 176 people on board were killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ukrainian flight was headed to the Canadian city of Toronto via Kyiv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The crash of Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 near Tehran airport came just hours after Iran carried out missile strikes on two airbases housing US forces in Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Victims of the crash included 82 Iranians, 57 Canadians and 11 Ukrainians as well as nationals from Sweden, the UK, Afghanistan and Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Friday’s news briefing in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, Prystaiko reiterated that at this stage Ukrainian investigators were not ruling out any possible cause of the crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But he called for the “level of speculation” to be reduced, adding that Ukraine wanted to establish an “international coalition” to conduct a thorough investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prystaiko said nearly 50 Ukrainian investigators were already working in Iran, and there was “full co-operation” from Tehran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We are analysing pieces of the body of the plane, we are analysing the bodies of the people who died in the crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We are analysing the chemical residues on the body of the plane. We will come to our conclusion, we don’t want to come to them right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Our team has now got access to the black boxes,” he said, stressing that Ukraine wanted them to be analysed in Kyiv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iran earlier said it would download the information itself, adding that the process could take up to two months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kyiv earlier said the US had passed on “important data” about the crash, without providing any further details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine’s team in Iran includes experts who worked on the investigation into the 2014 downing by a missile of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine. — NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iran says the data from the “black box” will be analysed at home, but Ukraine wants to do this in Kyiv \u00a0KIEV, Jan 11 (NNN-AGENCIES)\u00a0—It is too soon to draw any conclusions on what brought down a Ukrainian passenger plane in Iran on Wednesday, Ukraine’s foreign minister has said. “We have so many different versions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58204"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}