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UK investigators are to start examining the flight data recorder from the downed Malaysia Airlines plane.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch in Farnborough will start the process almost a week after the plane crashed in eastern Ukraine.
Whitehall sources, meanwhile, say information shows some evidence was tampered with at the crash site.
The sources said this included moving bodies and scattering the parts of other aircraft among the wreckage.
All 298 people on board flight MH17 were killed in the crash in Ukraine on 17 July.
They included 10 Britons on the flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
British accident investigators will attempt to retrieve data from the recorders following a request by authorities in the Netherlands.
The Dutch Safety Board, which is leading the investigation, said “valid data” had already been downloaded from MH17′s cockpit voice recorder (CVR) which will be “further analysed”.
The board said: “The CVR was damaged but the memory module was intact. Furthermore no evidence or indications of manipulation of the CVR was found.”
The black boxes have been transported to the UK after pro-Russian rebels handed them to Malaysian officials this week.
The data recorder records technical information on the performance of the aircraft.
The other box takes down sounds such as pilots’ voices and, potentially, an explosion.
A spokesman for the Department for Transport said data from the two devices would be downloaded and sent back to Dutch investigators.
Depending on damage to the black boxes the process should take about two days, the spokesman said.
Jonathan Sumberg, BBC transport reporter, said the British Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) was one of two “replay units” in Europe with the necessary equipment to listen to the cockpit voice recorder.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch in Farnborough will start the process almost a week after the plane crashed in eastern Ukraine.
Whitehall sources, meanwhile, say information shows some evidence was tampered with at the crash site.
The sources said this included moving bodies and scattering the parts of other aircraft among the wreckage.
All 298 people on board flight MH17 were killed in the crash in Ukraine on 17 July.
They included 10 Britons on the flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
British accident investigators will attempt to retrieve data from the recorders following a request by authorities in the Netherlands.
The Dutch Safety Board, which is leading the investigation, said “valid data” had already been downloaded from MH17′s cockpit voice recorder (CVR) which will be “further analysed”.
The board said: “The CVR was damaged but the memory module was intact. Furthermore no evidence or indications of manipulation of the CVR was found.”
The black boxes have been transported to the UK after pro-Russian rebels handed them to Malaysian officials this week.
The data recorder records technical information on the performance of the aircraft.
The other box takes down sounds such as pilots’ voices and, potentially, an explosion.
A spokesman for the Department for Transport said data from the two devices would be downloaded and sent back to Dutch investigators.
Depending on damage to the black boxes the process should take about two days, the spokesman said.
Jonathan Sumberg, BBC transport reporter, said the British Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) was one of two “replay units” in Europe with the necessary equipment to listen to the cockpit voice recorder.
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