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Black boxes recovered from crashed Iranian plane
Thu Jul 16, 2009 2:05am EDT
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Two badly damaged black box recorders have been recovered from a Tupolev aircraft that crashed in Iran Wednesday, killing all 168 people on board, official media reported Thursday.
The cause of the worst air crash in Iran for six years was still unknown, Iran's state English-language Press TV said.
The aircraft was on its way to neighboring Armenia's capital Yerevan when it came down after catching fire in mid-air and plowing into farmland 16 minutes after departing Tehran.
The Russian-built Caspian Airlines plane exploded on impact and left only scattered bits of incinerated metal and fragments of the bodies of 153 passengers and 15 crew across a wide area around a deep smoking crater in the ground.
"Iran has recovered two black boxes from the passenger plane that crashed in the northwest of the country," Press TV said. Other Iranian media carried similar reports.
Press TV's website quoted an official as saying the two boxes -- which could contain vital clues to explaining the crash -- were heavily damaged but that experts were trying to retrieve data from them.
The semi-official Fars News Agency said authorities were still searching for a third black box.
Most of those onboard were Iranians, but there were also Armenian and Georgian citizens.
Deputy Transport Minister Ahmad Majidi said DNA testing would be needed to identify the remains.
"All gathered parts of dead bodies scattered in the crash area have been handed over to Qazvin's coroner office and will be transferred to Tehran's coroner office today," Fars quoted Majidi as saying.
OLD FOE OFFERS CONDOLENCES
The United States, the Islamic Republic's arch foe, extended condolences Wednesday to families of the victims.
Washington has no diplomatic ties with Tehran but has been trying to reach out to the country as part of an effort to coax it into negotiations over its disputed nuclear program.
"The United States extends it condolences to the families of those who lost their lives in today's crash of a Caspian Airlines plane carrying passengers from Tehran, Iran to Yerevan, Armenia," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said.
U.S. sanctions bar the sale of Boeing aircraft to Iran and hinder it buying other aircraft or spares from the West, many of which rely on U.S.-built engines and parts. Continued...
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