Senior aviation investigator says it was a crucial part in validating their findings on what could have caused the crash.
MH17 | Malaysia's success in securing Malaysia Airlines' Flight 17 data flight recorder from rebel-held territory in Donetsk, Ukraine days after its tragic crash on July 17, 2014 was the main breakthrough in the incident's investigation, says the Dutch Safety Board.
In a briefing session with Malaysian journalists on Friday, senior investigator Gijsbert Vogelaar said the data recorder, otherwise known as the black box, played a crucial part in validating their findings on what could have caused the crash. "In the beginning , we had to start working without the wreckage. But we have many photographs, of course, we have the radar data, and cockpit flight data recorder .
"So based on all that information, we learned a lot about the incident before we got the wreckage," he told reporters during the special briefing session held at the board's office in The Hague, Netherlands....
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