Canada: Flight 752 investigation still has a long way to go
The Canadian government's Transportation Security Administration, in response to the Islamic Republic's latest report on the Ukrainian plane, said that the investigation is a long way from being completed and that "many key questions remain that need to be answered."
These statements are part of the response from Katie Fox and the Canadian government department to a report presented on Sunday by the head of Iran's Civil Aviation Organization.
Ms. Fox has confirmed that Canada has received the new report.
"This [report] is not the final version of the investigation, but rather a summary of the content of the conversations and information in the cockpit and the data taken down last month in Paris," he said in a statement.
The "Association of Families of Flight 752 Victims," an independent civil society organization pursuing issues related to the plane crash, also said in a statement, "Our important question in this case, the reasons for the delay in the flight process and the pilots' conversations during that one hour, which should be included in the report, still remains clearly unanswered."
The association has repeatedly called for an impartial and comprehensive investigation into the events it described as a "crime."
Six months after the downing of Flight 752 by the Revolutionary Guards' air defense missiles, the Islamic Republic of Iran finally handed over the Boeing's black box to France for analysis on July 17.
The IRGC's shooting down of the plane killed 176 citizens of Iran, Afghanistan, Britain, Canada, and Ukraine.
Touraj Dehghani, head of the Iranian Civil Aviation Organization, said in a press conference on September 2nd that after the explosion of the first missile fired at the plane, "no sound was heard from the passenger cabin" and that the passengers were in "physical health."
Mr. Dehghani said that two pilots and a pilot instructor were "busy guiding the plane until the last moment" after the first missile was fired, with the second missile being fired 25 seconds after the first.
Three days after covering up the missile attack on the plane, Islamic Republic officials admitted that the plane had been targeted. The events occurred on the day the Revolutionary Guards launched missile attacks on two bases used by US forces in Iraq in response to the killing of Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad. No one was killed in the IRGC missile attacks on the bases.
The secrecy surrounding the missile launch, the manner in which the information was provided, many doubts about the transparency of the information, the many ups and downs in providing the black box to a country or institution capable of implementing the information, the long process of sending the black boxes, contradictory statements, and other issues have caused many protests and doubts.
Source: Radio Farda
