Canada urges Iran to send downed plane's black boxes to France

Canada pressed Iran Wednesday to send the black boxes from a crashed airliner immediately to France where the data can be analyzed, the Canadian foreign ministry said. Iran’s civil aviation authority said Tuesday it would keep working with other countries investigating its downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane last month. Tehran has not released the black boxes. Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne spoke to his Iranian counterpart Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and stressed Tehran must arrange for the quick download and analysis of the flight’s data recorders. Champagne said the preferred option was “for Iran to make use of the facilities offered by France with the technical capacity to do this work”, it added.<br/>