MH17 crash: Russia doesn't plan to take black boxes

Moscow: Russia does not plan to take the “black box” flight recorders from a Malaysian airliner downed in territory held by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday. [caption id=“attachment_1624653” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] The crash site. Reuters.[/caption] “Despite what Kiev is again saying, we do not plan to take these (black) boxes. We do not plan to violate existing (international) norms for such situations,” Lavrov said in an interview with Russian state television. “We want international experts to get to the site of the crash as soon as possible so that they get the black boxes right away.” Reuters