Black boxes from the Malaysia Airlines plane downed in eastern Ukraine have arrived in Britain to be examined by UK air accident investigators.
Authorities say MH17's black boxes are apparently intact and it is hoped the black boxes recovered from the crash site in Ukraine will hold vital clues to the disaster.
British experts at the Air Accidents Investigation Branch will retrieve data from the flight recorders for analysis, following a request from the government of the Netherlands, David Cameron said on Twitter.
The experts expect to download all the information within 24 hours of retrieving them, a Department of Transport spokesman said. They will not publish their findings but will pass them on to Dutch authorities, who will then decide what information can be released.
Earlier Tuesday, pro-Russia separatists in Ukraine handed the two black boxes from Flight 17 over to Malaysian investigators in the city of Donetsk. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said the handover was part of an agreement he had reached with rebel leader Alexander Borodai.
Mr Najib said the black boxes appeared "to be in good condition."
Meanwhile, the Obama administration says it will present data from the US intelligence community laying out what's known about the Malaysia Airlines plane that was shot down in Ukraine.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the intelligence community will have some additional data to present later in the day. No additional details about what would be released were available.
Mr Earnest said the US welcomed the news that most of the remains of the 298 killed have been handed over to authorities and the black boxes were transferred to Dutch and Malaysian authorities.
But he said the US still hasn't seen the level of cooperation from Russia and pro-Russian separatists that it wants to see. He said international investigators led by the Dutch still need full and immediate access to the crash site.
Out of the 298 passengers and crew killed on the flight from the Netherlands to Malaysia, the Netherlands was the hardest hit nation, losing 193 citizens. Read More Here
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