OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says Canada will have its own forensics team examine the evidence on the crash of Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752.
Iran admits an air-defence battery shot the airliner down near Tehran in January, blaming human error.
Champagne says the Canadian team will be led by a former deputy director of operations at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and will have members from several federal departments.
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Canadian experts have been present as observers in the probe of the crash being carried out under international air travel rules, but can play only a very limited role.
Fifty-five Canadians and 30 permanent residents were among the 176 people killed in the crash, with many more of the passengers bound for Canada as well.
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The route from Tehran to Kyiv, Ukraine, was a popular first leg of the voyage from Iran to Canada.
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