MH17 black boxes delivered to British investigators via @iKanzee_RR

The black boxes from the doomed Malaysia
Airlines flight MH17 that crashed in eastern
Ukraine have arrived in Britain for expert
analysis, the government said Wednesday.
The recorders have been delivered to the Air
Accidents Investigation Branch headquarters
in Farnborough, southwest of London.
The AAIB experts were set to go through the
information from the cockpit voice recorder,
which should give them hours of pilots’
conversations, as well as study the contents of
the flight data recorder.
“We can confirm that the two black boxes from
MH17 have been delivered by the Dutch Safety
Board to the Air Accidents Investigation
Branch at Farnborough for download,” a
Department for Transport spokeswoman told
AFP.
The passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala
Lumpur came down in eastern Ukraine, killing
all 298 people on board, 193 of them Dutch
citizens.
US officials say the plane was mistakenly shot
down by pro-Russian separatists in the
region.
It is thought that the AAIB will be able to send
details of their findings to the Dutch
authorities within 24 hours — giving experts in
the Netherlands further information of the
doomed Boeing 777 jet’s last moments.
Ukraine’s government said in a statement that
the black boxes were transferred to Britain
under the observation of the United Nations’
International Civil Aviation Organisation.
The statement said that the vital data
recorders were flown out of Kiev following an
agreement between Malaysian, Dutch and
Ukrainian officials and representatives from
the ICAO.
“Under the protocol it was determined that the
objects called ‘black boxes’ were presented to
the Ukrainian side but the Ukrainian side did
not get involved with them and these objects
did not remain under Ukrainian control for
even one minute,” the statement said.
The AAIB is responsible for investigating civil
aircraft accidents and serious incidents in
Britain.
It also provides assistance and expertise to
the “international air accident community” to
help improve aviation safety worldwide.
“The fundamental purpose of investigating
accidents is to determine the circumstances
and causes of the accident with a view to the
preservation of life and the avoidance of
accidents in the future,” the branch says of its
work.
“It is not to apportion blame or liability.”
It says it aims to conduct “thorough,
independent, impartial and timely
investigations”.