Transport committee  Mr. Chair, as Mr. Tasker outlined earlier, there may be a variety of ways to improve transparency and credibility. We have some ideas. For example, it could be a delegation by the state of occurrence to another state. It could be the creation of some sort of multinational investi

Transport committee  Mr. Chair, I'll ask Mr. Tasker to answer that, because he was directly involved in presenting that paper.

Transport committee  Let me ask Ms. Van Themsche to answer that question.

Transport committee  Mr. Chair, to be clear, the eight aircraft departed after Iran launched missiles into Iraq, and Iran's report suggests a scenario in which the radar had been offline for a certain period of time. We were not able to obtain any additional information to validate that, one way or t

Transport committee  Mr. Chair, I'm going to ask Mr. Tasker to take that question, because he was the one who presented the paper at ICAO last month.

Transport committee  I can say that we have not been shy about requesting better access to the investigation. However, the roles are very well prescribed by Annex 13 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). As for our relations with

Transport committee  Mr. Chair, we thought it was important to follow the protocols of Annex 13 of the ICAO Convention to avoid being kicked out, if I may use the term, of the investigation. Still, there is a certain way to proceed. We are used to it. We participate in 100 or 200 investigations a yea

Transport committee  Mr. Chair, the comments we provided to Ukraine are really Ukraine's to deal with, but we have indicated to Ukraine and to others that we have no issue releasing our comments to the public if requested.

Transport committee  To be clear, it's not a report. It's really our comments on their safety report. As long as Ukraine has no objection, we have no objection to releasing our comments.

Transport committee  Again, we were appointed as a technical adviser to Ukraine. Therefore, we would want Ukraine to approve the release of our comments to them. I can assure you, Mr. Chair, that all of our comments were provided to Iran. I realize you may be running short of time. Mr. Tasker, do

Transport committee  Mr. Chairman, I'm going to ask Mr. Tasker to take that question, because he was the one who went to Tehran and can speak directly to the matter.

Transport committee  Mr. Chair, to be clear, we asked for the higher status of accredited representative, which provides us with more opportunity to contribute to the investigation. That was done by me in writing on more than one occasion. It was done multiple times by Mr. Tasker, who was in direct c

Transport committee  Mr. Chair, in accordance with ICAO annex 13, experts do not normally participate, even as observers, in the download analysis of recorders, so the fact that we were able to have somebody there was an extra step for us. We did not have direct access to the recordings, no, but we a

Transport committee  Mr. Chair, with respect to the letters I sent, I had a response to only one of the three letters that I sent. In response to the request Mr. Tasker made, we, along with other expert countries, such as Sweden and the U.K., were not allowed to have direct access to the recordings i

Transport committee  Mr. Chair, I think it would be oversimplistic to give it a specific grade. The report is incomplete. It doesn't provide proof. It doesn't provide details about what happened or why it happened, so it falls short of what we would have expected and certainly what the families deser