On July 20, six months after the UIA flight out of Tehran was shot down, aviation experts are to start reading the flight recorders in France

On July 20, six months after the UIA flight out of Tehran was shot down, aviation experts are to start reading the flight recorders in France, Bloomberg reports, citing Iran’s state-run Islamic Republic News Agency. “An Iranian aviation team will transfer the black boxes to France and data extraction will begin on July 20, if nothing happens out of the ordinary,” Mohsen Baharvand, deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs, told the agency. On Jan. 8, at the height of tensions with the US, an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps air defense unit fired two Russian-made Tor-M1 surface to air missiles at the Ukrainian International Airlines passenger jet, killing all 176 on board.