DUBAI: Iran said it wanted to download black box recordings itself from a Ukrainian airliner that crashed, killing all 176 people aboard after Canada and others said the plane was brought down by an Iranian missile.
Iran, which has denied the Boeing 737-800 was downed by a missile, said it could take one or two months to extract information from the voice and flight data recorders. If it needed help, it said it could ask Russia, Canada, France or Ukraine, Reuters reported.
An Iranian aviation official also said the probe could take one or two years.
Ukraine said it could not rule out a missile strike but this had not been confirmed. The Ukraine International Airlines flight to Kiev from Tehran crashed on Wednesday, when Iran was on alert for a U.S. military response hours after firing missiles at U.S. targets in Iraq.
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