Extract received by me from Letter Truss dated 06MAY2014
QUOTE: "In relation to the retrieval of the VH-NGA flight recorders, it was considered that the data would offer little information directly relevant to the key safety issues in the investigation that were not already available from other sources. In addition the ATSB advised that any information obtained would not likely lead to any commensurately significant safety learning or improvement in transport safety." QUOTE.
If the likely significant safety learning advice from the Ukraine disaster is not to fly through war zones, why is everybody so focused on the FDR's of that aircraft? Isn't there enough available evidence to identify a lesson to be learnt and react to that? I'm only quoting from the Truss letter. One should also ask why the FDR was installed in VH-NGA in the first place.
Dolan wouldn't be able to identify a stolen Ukrainian BUK missile from a Russian one and neither can the Americans or Australian Politicians.