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Flight Recorders Found in Ukrainian Crash, but Who Will Analyze Them?

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   Authorities in Iran are investigating why a Ukrainian passenger jet
   crashed minutes after takeoff from Tehran's airport early Wednesday,
   killing all 176 people on board.

   The Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) flight was bound for Kyiv with
   167 passengers and nine crew members. Ukrainian Foreign
   MinisterVadymPrystaikosaid the dead included 82 Iranians and 63
   Canadians along with Ukrainians, Swedes, Afghans, Germans and Britons.

   The flag over the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa was lowered to
   half-staff Wednesday. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the entire
   country was "shocked and saddened" at one of its worst losses of life
   in a single day in years.

   Trudeau said 138 of the passengers had planned to take an onward flight
   from Kyiv to Toronto, many of them Iranian students hoping to return to
   school after a winter break with their families in Iran. He promised to
   work for a thorough investigation of the crash.

   U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres offered his condolences,
   through a spokesman, to the families of the victims and the various
   countries from which they came.

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