Iran refuses to hand over the crashed Ukrainian Boeing 737's black box to the embattled manufacturer (BA)

Nazanin Tabatabaee/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS

• A Boeing 737-800 passenger jet crashed shortly after take-off and crashed in Iran on Wednesday morning.
• The Ukraine International Airlines plane had been flying from Tehran to Kyiv.
• Iranian investigators have found one of the plane's two black boxes, but the head of the country's civil aviation authority has refused to hand it over to Boeing, the local Mehr news agency reported.
• Ali Abedzadeh, the civil aviation chief, added that he isn't sure where to send the box to analyze the data, Mehr added.
• Black boxes record flight data and audio from the cockpit, and often provide valuable information on how plane crashes occur.
• Boeing has faced heavy scrutiny in recent months over two plane crashes involving its 737 Max jet, which also took place shortly after take-off. The 737-800 and 737 Max are distinct models of the plane.
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Iranian authorities are refusing to hand over the black box of the crashed Ukrainian jet to Boeing, the plane's manufacturer, according to Iranian media.

Crash investigators had found one of the two black boxes from the Boeing 737-800 that crashed near Tehran around 6:20 a.m. Wednesday morning local time, Iran's state media reported.

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