CRASHED PLANE’S BLACK BOXES RECOVERED

PRESS TV
July 16 2009
Iran

Two black boxes of a passenger plane, which crashed near the Iranian
city of Qazvin, have been found and search is underway to find the
third one, an official said.

Ahmad Majidi, Head of the Crisis Working Group of Iran’s Road and
Transportation Ministry told IRNA that experts from Iran’s Civil
Aviation Organization (CAO) have recovered the two boxes.

Majidi noted that the black boxes of the Tupolev plane were heavily
damaged but experts are trying to retrieve data from them.

"If efforts to retrieve data from the boxes fail, they will be sent
back to the country that has produced them so that they could be
repaired in order to find the reason behind the crash," he noted.

He said that the plane was smashed into pieces after the crash.

168 people aboard the plane, including 151 passengers and 15 crew
members were killed in the crash.

Seven passengers were foreigners from Armenia and Georgia and all
the other passengers were Iranians.