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Investigators recover voice recordings from Ukrainian airliner shot down by Iran

Iran's civil aviation authority has sent to France the black boxes from a Ukraine jet it shot down.

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A poster of slain military commander Qasem Soleimani is seen at a memorial for the victims of the Ukrainian plane crash, at the University of Tehran on Jan. 14, 2020. — ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images

Voice recordings stored in black boxes on board a Ukrainian airliner shot down by Iran in January have been recovered, France’s aviation safety authority said today.

The data successfully downloaded from the black boxes includes recordings of the pilots speaking, France’s Bureau for Civil Aviation Safety Enquiry (BEA) said, according to Reuters.

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