Tehran, July 16: 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 has 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 said.
He said that the plane was smashed into pieces after the crash.
All the 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.
—–Agencies