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Champagne demands black boxes from Iran plane crash be sent to France

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Canada’s foreign minister says he’s asked for international help to pressure Iran to give up the black boxes recovered from the wreckage of Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752.

Francois-Philippe Champagne says he and Transport Minister Marc Garneau have met the leaders at the International Civil Aviation Organization to try to break a logjam over the data recorders.

Iran admits its air defences shot missiles at the plane in January.

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All 176 people aboard, including 138 who were headed for Canada, were killed when it crashed outside Tehran.

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Iran retrieved the data recorders but doesn’t have the equipment to extract the information from them.

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Champagne says Canada wants the black boxes sent to France for analysis, while Iran has asked other countries to lend it the gear so it can do the analysis itself.

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