BRUSSELS - The international team of investigators which works under the supervision of the Dutch Safety Board has conducted a thorough examination of the voice recorder of the Malaysian airliner that crashed in Ukraine's east and has not found any signs that it has been tempered with, the board said on July 23.
“The Cockpit Voice Recorder was damaged but the memory module was intact. Furthermore no evidence or indications of manipulation of the Cockpit Voice Recorder was found,” reads a press release posted on the organization’s Web site.
Following the examination, the Cockpit Voice Recorder data was successfully downloaded and contained valid data from the flight, the Dutch Safety Board said. The downloaded data will be further analyzed and investigated.
A thorough analysis of the information obtained will take time, the results of this will be included in the investigation.
On Thursday, the team will start the examination of the Flight Data Recorder. This will show whether this recorder also contains relevant information, in which case the data from both recorders will be combined, the Dutch Safety Board said.
As reported, the flight data and cockpit voice recorders from the Malaysian Airlines flight 17 were handed to the Dutch ambassador and a team of investigators led by the Dutch Safety Board in Kyiv on July 22. The Dutch Safety Board requested that the Air Accident Investigation Branch of the United Kingdom (AAIB) perform the data download from both the recorders. The recorders were transported to the AAIB’s laboratory at Farnborough, where they arrived in the morning of July 23.
An international team of investigators has conducted a thorough examination of the Cockpit Voice Recorder.
