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2020-01-09 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran said it would not hand over to Americans the recovered black boxes of the crashed Boeing 737

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Posted by Fred 2020-01-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top
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#1 Aircraft manufacturers such as Boeing are deadly serious about debugging any problems with their machines. That the Persians are not providing the data recorders strongly suggests there is a back story they want hidden. Yes, you are as surprised as I am. Dollars to donuts, the satanic Americans have some satellite or radar data that would clear up the mystery.

Posted by SteveS 2020-01-09 00:23|| 2020-01-09 00:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Before this stunt by the death-cult mad mullahs I would've pegged the odds of a SAM strike bringing down the Ukrainian airliner at maybe 8 or 9 to 1. Now I think those odds are about 999 to 1.

Posted by Lex 2020-01-09 00:40|| 2020-01-09 00:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Hand them over to the French, they have the capability and equiments to read Boeing black boxes.

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2020-01-09 01:49|| 2020-01-09 01:49|| Front Page Top

#4 and, sad to say, the French may be more competent, given recent Boeing foo-pahs.

Posted by Mercutio 2020-01-09 07:36|| 2020-01-09 07:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Ukrainians are leaning towards a SA-15 (TOR) strike apparently, based on the damage patterns visible and missile pieces near the crash site.

Iran does have some of those.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-01-09 08:28|| 2020-01-09 08:28|| Front Page Top

#6 To be fair Iran is under no obligation to "hand over" the black boxes to Boeing or the NTSB.

There are several institutions that could handle the data including the Bundesstelle für Flugunfalluntersuchung (BFU) in Germany, the Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses pour la sécurité de l’aviation civile (BEA) in France and the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) in the UK.

In the case of MH17, Ukraine handed over the black boxes to the Netherlands (reading was done by British experts).

Iran has announced that specialists from Ukraine, Sweden and Canada will be invited. Who will do the reading of the data has not been determined yet but I guess international pressure will be high to have this done by a neutral institution. If evidence points to a technical failure, specialists of Boeing will have to be involved. Ukraine will certainly share the data.

If Iran already knows that they shot down the plane they will most likely want to make sure that the black boxes won't deliver usable data.

I also guess that the sky over Teheran was extremely well monitored by Western intelligence, and rocket launches from the vicinity would not have gone unnoticed.

Posted by European Conservative 2020-01-09 08:43|| 2020-01-09 08:43|| Front Page Top

#7 I also guess that the sky over Teheran was extremely well monitored by Western intelligence, and rocket launches from the vicinity would not have gone unnoticed.

And I don't believe that, if true, such data would be divulged.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-01-09 10:05|| 2020-01-09 10:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Who will do the reading of the data has not been determined yet but I guess international pressure will be high to have this done by a neutral institution

Bets on whether the data is "unreadable"?

Posted by SteveS 2020-01-09 10:53|| 2020-01-09 10:53|| Front Page Top

#9 Bet on who's considered "neutral"?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-09 10:53|| 2020-01-09 10:53|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ "We'll let Yemen inspect it. They'll give an unbiased report to Boeing."

Posted by Dron66046 2020-01-09 11:12|| 2020-01-09 11:12|| Front Page Top

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