Investigators find no evidence of MH17 black box tampering

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Air accident investigators successfully extracted data from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17's two black boxes on Thursday, as work to recover the bodies of the 298 victims and secure the crash site in eastern Ukraine continued.

The Dutch Safety Board, which is coordinating the inquiry into the causes of the disaster, in which 194 Dutch citizens died, said it had found no evidence that the Boeing 777's Flight Data Recorder and Cockpit Voice Recorder had been tampered with.

World leaders had expressed concern that the black boxes, which could contain data vital to ascertaining the cause of the crash, may have been manipulated by the Moscow-backed rebels who control the territory in which the aircraft crashed last week and who initially took possession of the recorders.

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(Reporting by Thomas Escritt; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall and Giles Elgood)

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