Black box found at plane crash site in Ukraine

Emergency crews find one of MH17's black boxes in the debris field of the downed airliner

Agence France-Presse

Published 2:59 PM, July 18, 2014

Updated 2:59 PM, July 18, 2014

BLACK BOX. Debris of the Boeing 777, Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which crashed during flying over the eastern Ukraine region near Donetsk, Ukraine, 17 July 2014. PHOTOMIG/EPA

GRABOVE, Ukraine – Rescue workers at the crash site of Malaysian airliner MH17 in eastern Ukraine told an Agence France-Presse (AFP) reporter Friday, July 18, that they had found one of the black boxes from the passenger liner.

Emergency crews were working through the debris of the downed jet that was spread out across an area stretching for kilometres while rebels controlling the area have pledged to allow international investigators access to the site. – Rappler.com