Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroisman, who heads the government commission of inquiry into the Malaysian Boeing 777 crash in Donetsk region, has said that the plane's flight recorders have been handed to the Malaysian side, and now will be delivered to the United Kingdom under the supervision of International Civil Aviation Organization.
At a press conference in Kharkiv on July 22, he said that foreign representatives and Ukraine signed a document which says that the Ukrainian side had not touched the black boxes.
“The so-called black boxes are under the complete control of the Malaysian side, and a document has been worked out with the participation of Ukraine, the Dutch side and ICAO which says that all the items that have been handed over, have not been under control of the Ukrainian side, not for a minute,” Hroisman said.
According to him, these items will be transferred to the UK via Kyiv under the supervision of ICAO.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said earlier that the UK agreed to take the MH17 flight recorders to retrieve data from them.
“We’ve agreed Dutch request for air accident investigators at Farnborough to retrieve data from MH17 black boxes for international analysis,” Cameron wrote on Twitter.
