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Euronews: Black boxes show pilots alive after missile hit Ukraine jet in Iran

Published Aug. 24, 2020. Updated Aug. 24 at 5:01 am

Relatives and colleagues consoled eachother on Jan. 19, 2020 at the tribute ceremony that took place at Kyiv's Boryspil airport for the Ukrainians who died on the plane shot down in Iran eleven days earlier.

Photo by Volodymyr Petrov

The black boxes recovered from a Ukrainian airliner mistakenly downed in Tehran has shown the two pilots were alive after the first two missiles hit, officials said Sunday. The Ukraine International Airlines passenger jet, crashed shortly after taking off from Tehran’s main airport on January 8, killing all 176 people on board.