Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said earlier this month that the department would grant sanction waivers to allow Americans or anyone else to participate in the investigation of the Jan. 8 crash of the Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737 near Tehran that killed all 176 people onboard.

GE co-owns with France’s Safran SA the French-U.S. firm CFM that made the plane’s engines. (Reporting by Daphne Psaledakis; Editing by Mohammad Zargham).