Canada: Long Road Ahead Until Flight 752 Investigation Concludes
Canada’s transportation safety authority responded to the Islamic Republic’s latest report on the Ukrainian aircraft by stating that a long road lies ahead until the investigation concludes, with “many key questions remaining that need answers.”
These remarks are part of Katie Falk and Canada’s government authority’s response to a report presented Sunday by the head of Iran’s civil aviation organization.
Ms. Falk confirmed that Canada has received the new report.
In a statement, she said “This [report] is not the final version of the investigation, but rather actually a summary of the content of communications and information in the cockpit and data downloaded last month in Paris.”
The “Flight 752 Victims’ Families Association,” an independent civil organization following up on issues related to the aircraft crash, also stated in a statement: “Our important questions regarding the reasons for delays in the flight process and the pilots’ communications during that one hour, which should be addressed in the report, remain conspicuously unanswered.”
The association has repeatedly called for impartial and comprehensive investigations into events it has described as “crimes.”
The Islamic Republic of Iran, six months after shooting down Flight 752 with the firing of air defense missiles by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, finally delivered the Boeing black box to France for data reading on July 18.
The Guard Corps’ firing on this aircraft resulted in the deaths of 176 citizens from Iran, Afghanistan, Britain, Canada, and Ukraine.
Turoj Dehghani, head of Iran’s civil aviation organization, said at a press conference on the second day of Shahrivar month that after the explosion of the first missile fired at the aircraft, “no sound was heard from the passenger cabin” and passengers were in “physical health.”
Mr. Dehghani said two pilots and one flight instructor were “occupied with guiding the aircraft until the last moment” after the first missile was fired, with the second missile being fired 25 seconds after the first.
Officials of the Islamic Republic admitted three days after concealing the missile firing at the aircraft that the plane had been targeted. The events relate to a day when the Revolutionary Guard, in response to the killing of Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad, launched missile attacks on two bases used by American forces in Iraq. No one was killed in the Guard’s missile attacks on the bases.
The concealment of the missile firing, the manner of notification, considerable doubts about the transparency of information, numerous ups and downs in delivering the black box to a country or entity capable of data extraction, the lengthy process of sending black boxes, contradictory statements, and other issues have caused numerous protests and doubts.
Source: Radio Farda
