Clean Up Of MH17 Wreckage Begins In Eastern Ukraine
Armed pro-Russian rebels were on hand to supervise the start of the clean up operation, four months after the jet was brought down. A new video of the immediate aftermath of the crash has also emerged.
Work has finally begun to clean up the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 from rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine, according to Dutch air crash inspectors tasked with investigating the jet’s downing.
Four months after the plane was shot down while travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, cranes were brought in to lift parts of the twisted, scorched wreckage onto the back of trucks.
All 298 passengers and crew were killed in the incident, which Kiev has blamed on pro-Russian separatists.
The Dutch Safety Board called upon Ukraine’s State Emergency Service to gather parts of the wreckage on their behalf, as they remain concerned for their safety in the area.
"The crash area is large, so we do not intend to recover all the wreckage," Dutch Safety Board spokesman Wim van der Weegen told Reuters. "We've got a specific number of items we would like to recover."
Access to the site had previously been limited by the rebels, the BBC reported.
Armed separatists were on hand to supervise the clean up of the plane, which was shot down over rebel-held territory in war-town eastern Ukraine.
Additionally, a new video has emerged that appears to show the immediate aftermath of the MH17 crash.
