Memory units of the crashed Malaysian Boeing’s flight recorders are in good condition and have no signs of tampering, a Moscow-based air disaster investigation body said on Friday.
“An examination revealed that flight data recorders have slight mechanical damage, which did not affect the memory chips. After the memory chips had been removed and hooked up to lab equipment, all information was successfully copied and its authenticity confirmed by experts,” said the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK), whose expert is a member of an international group, retrieving data from the black boxes.
Earlier on Thursday, the Dutch Safety Board (DSB) announced that investigation team of 24 international specialists had successfully transferred data from the flight data recorder of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane that crashed last week in eastern Ukraine. The work took place at the Farnborough headquarters of the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) in the United Kingdom.
Malaysia Airlines MH17 en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17. All 298 people on board, including 192 Dutch nationals, died in the crash. The plane’s two black boxes were recovered by Ukrainian independence supporters from the crashed Boeing and given to Malaysian authorities earlier on Monday. They were then sent to the UK for a comprehensive analysis.
Kiev authorities and independence supporters have been trading blame for the downing of the plane, with independence supporters insisting they lacked the technology to shoot down a target flying at an altitude of nearly 33,000 feet.
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