France to start download of Ukrainian black boxes on July 20

France confirmed on Friday that it would start repairing and downloading the black boxes from a Ukrainian airliner on July 20, which was downed unintentionally by a missile in Iran in January. 

Iran PressEurope: France's BEA air accident agency said it was acting on behalf of Iran, which is leading a formal air accident probe after acknowledging that the Boeing 737 was downed accidentally by its forces with the loss of 176 lives.

Work on repairing and downloading the cockpit voice and data recorders will begin on July 20, the BEA said, while aviation authorities in Canada, 57 of whose citizens died in the crash, said they would send a team to Paris to participate, Reuters reported.

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