Iran seeks help reading plane´s black boxes amid pressure
(WorldNews Iran)

Dubai: Iran has asked the US and French authorities for equipment to download information from black boxes on a downed Ukrainian airliner, a request that will add to international frustration at Tehran´s failure to send the recorders abroad for analysis. Canada, 57 of whose citizens were among the 176 people killed in the crash, has said France should handle the flight data and voice recorders as one of the few nations with the ability to analyse the information. Kiev has repeatedly called for Iran to return the black boxes from the US-built Boeing 737 flown by Ukraine International Airlines that was shot down in error on January 8. Tehran, already embroiled in a...