KIEV, July 25 (RIA Novosti) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has decided to hand over satellite images of the Malaysian plane crash site in eastern Ukraine to foreign investigators, his website said Friday.
The statement said the images would be handed over to “police of the Netherlands and law enforcement bodies of other states, as well as to the OSCE mission.”
Earlier on Monday, Ukrainian independence supporters recovered two black boxes from the crashed Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 and passed them to Malaysian authorities. They were then sent to the Farnborough headquarters of the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) in the United Kingdom for a comprehensive analysis, where a team of 24 international experts had successfully transferred data from the flight data recorder.
Malaysia Airlines flight 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.
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.
