The black box of the plane that the IRGC shot down finally arrived in France.

Canadian Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says the black box flight recorder from the Ukrainian plane that was shot down by an Iranian missile is in Paris and is expected to be handed over to the French Air Accidents Investigation Branch for analysis on Monday.

Champagne tweeted that officials from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada will be present during the investigation.

The majority of the 176 passengers on that flight were Canadian citizens or were traveling to that country.

Iran says its military mistakenly shot down the Ukrainian plane for a missile fired towards Iran shortly after it took off from the runway in Tehran.

This incident occurred at the height of tensions between Iran and the United States, when Iran fired several missiles at a US base in Iraq in response to the killing of Qassem Soleimani.

Canada, Ukraine, and other countries whose citizens were on board have called for a full investigation, with analysis of black box data recovered from the wreckage at the center of the investigation.

On the morning of Wednesday, January 8, a Ukrainian Airlines Boeing 737 passenger plane with 176 people on board was shot down by the air defenses of the Revolutionary Guard Corps after taking off from an airport on the outskirts of Tehran. After days of insistence by Iranian officials that the plane had crashed due to a technical malfunction, the IRGC finally announced that it had mistakenly targeted the plane.

Previously, Human Rights Watch had accused the authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran of "following the past practice of evading responsibility and, instead of providing details of the investigation into the downing of the plane and those responsible for its fatal mistake, condemning those who protested the deaths of 176 people."

Source: Voice of America