Pro-Russia separatists plan to move MH17 black box to Moscow

In this image taken from video, Thursday July 17, 2014, people walk amongst the debris at the crash site after a passenger plan was shot down Thursday as it flew over Ukraine, near the village of Hrabove, in eastern Ukraine. Malaysia Airlines tweeted that it lost contact with one of its flights as it was traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur over Ukrainian airspace. (AP Photo/Channel 1) RUSSIA OUT – TV OUT

PETALING JAYA, Malaysia–Pro-Russia separatists who claim to have recovered the black box of the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 have announced they were planning to have it moved to Moscow for examination, a news report alleges.

According to Russian news agency Interfax, the news came from officials from the breakaway Donestsk Republic.

“Of course, we most likely will give them to the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC), to Moscow. They are highly qualified experts who will be able to accurately determine the cause of the disaster, even though it is so clear,” the report quotes Donestsk Republic First Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Purgin as saying.

A black box, which is actually orange, is made up of a cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder, which are used to aid crash investigators in determining the cause of aviation accidents.

A recording surfaced alleging that the  Malaysia Airlines flight  was shot down by pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine.

MH17 disappeared from radar screens in eastern Ukraine at around 1415 GMT, hours after the Boeing 777, bound for Kuala Lumpur, had taken off from Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport.

The Boeing 777, with 283 passengers and 15 crewmembers onboard, is believed to have been accidentally shot down 50km from the Ukraine-Russia border.

A Filipino mother and her two children were among the passengers of the ill-fated plane, the Department of Foreign Affairs said in Manila. With INQUIRER.net in Manila

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