MH17 crash scene in Ukraine where 298 people died is finally close to being cleared as removal of the wreckage continues amid temporary break in the fighting
- Dutch Safety Board which is leading the investigation has, up until now, had limited access to the crash site
- But work finally got underway to clear crash site yesterday - four months after plane was shot out of the sky
- MH17 was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur wheen it was shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine
- The tragedy, which cost 298 lives, came within months of the disappearance of another Malaysia Airlines flight
New photographs have emerged showing the inside of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 as wreckage continues to be cleared from the Ukrainian field where 298 people lost their lives.
The plane, which was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was shot down on July 17 while flying over Grabovo - a pro-Russian separatist controled village in eastern Ukraine roughly 40 miles from Donetsk.
The Dutch Safety Board, which is leading the investigation into the tragedy, has up to now had limited access to the crash site. But the board announced a few days ago that it hoped to start the recovery soon, and work to clear the site finally got under way yesterday.
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Grim: Workers remove parts of the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines passenger jet MH17 from the crash site in rebel-held Grabovo village
The jet's windows were either blown out in mid air on upon impact with the ground. Here a worker removes a small part of MH17's fuselage
Clean-up: The plane, which was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was shot down on July 17 while flying over Grabovo - a pro-Russian separatist controled village in eastern Ukraine roughly 40 miles from Donetsk
Recovery: The Dutch Safety Board, which is leading the investigation into the tragedy, has up to now had limited access to the crash site. But the board announced a few days ago that it hoped to start the recovery soon, and work to clear the site finally got under way yesterday
Taken away: A large piece of MH17 is seen being loaded on to the back of a lorry where it will be removed for further analysis
A preliminary report by the DSB in September said wreckage was 'consistent with the damage that would be expected from a large number of high-energy objects that penetrated the aircraft from outside'.
'The DSB commissioned the recovery and transportation to the Netherlands of the wreckage as part of the investigation into the cause of the crash of flight MH17. As part of the investigation the DSB intends to reconstruct a section of the aircraft.'
The board went on: 'It is expected that the recovery operation will take several days, depending on the safety conditions and other factors. This will be assessed daily.
'The recovered wreckage will be collected at a location near the crash site, from where the wreckage will be transported to Kharkov (in Ukraine) and finally to the Netherlands. At this point the DSB cannot give detailed information about the means of transportation and the time schedule.'
Despite the difficulty in accessing the site due to fighting in the area, the black box flight recorders were recovered early on and were passed to the DSB after being inspected at the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) headquarters at Farnborough in Hampshire.
Battered: A preliminary report by the DSB in September said wreckage was 'consistent with the damage that would be expected from a large number of high-energy objects that penetrated the aircraft from outside'
The wreckage will be gathered at a location near the crash site and will then be transported to Kharkov in Ukraine and finally to the Netherlands
A large crane lifts parts of MH17 from the field where wreckage remains scattered four months after the plane was shot out of the sky
The DSB said pieces of wreckage were pierced in numerous places and that most likely there had been 'an in-flight break up'
The MH17 disaster followed on from the disappearance in March this year of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which was flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 237 passengers on board
Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, pictured after take-off at 12.31 PM from Schiphol airport near Amsterdam on July 17, 2014
In its September preliminary report, the DSB said the black box information showed the MH17 flight proceeded normally until 1.20pm local time after which all recordings 'ended abruptly'.
The DSB said pieces of wreckage were pierced in numerous places and that most likely there had been 'an in-flight break up'.
The board added that it aimed to publish a full report within one year of the date of the crash.
The MH17 disaster followed on from the disappearance in March this year of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which was flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 237 passengers on board.
A reconstruction of a section of the MH17 aircraft by Dutch investigators would echo the work done by the AAIB which gathered wreckage from Pan Am flight 103 after it exploded over Lockerbie in December 1989 and painstakingly rebuilt part of the fuselage at Farnborough as part of its investigation.
As part of the investigation the DSB intends to reconstruct a section of the aircraft using large parts of the wreckage
A reconstruction of a section of the MH17 aircraft by Dutch investigators would echo the work done by the AAIB which gathered wreckage from Pan Am flight 103 after it exploded over Lockerbie in December 1989
Workers are pictured carrying large chunk of MH17's fuselage from the Ukrainian field in which it crashed in July
A DSB spokeswoman said: 'The recovery of wreckage of flight MH17 has been continuing this morning. For the second day wreckage will be recovered for the investigation into the cause of the crash of flight MH17.
'The wreckage will be brought to (the Ukrainian town of) Torez, where it will be placed on trains. Later on it will be transported to Kharkov and finally to the Netherlands.
The MH17 disaster followed on from the disappearance in March this year of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which was flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 237 passengers on board.
A reconstruction of a section of the MH17 aircraft by Dutch investigators would echo the work done by the AAIB which gathered wreckage from Pan Am flight 103 after it exploded over Lockerbie in December 1989 and painstakingly rebuilt part of the fuselage at Farnborough as part of its investigation.
Some parts of the wreckage are so large and heavy that they required a number of workers to carry them from the crash site
A crane carries wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane at the crash site near the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk region
Local workers transport helped to transport wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines crash site which is in the middle of a conflict zone
The report said the black box information showed the flight proceeded normally until 1.20pm local time and then recordings 'ended abruptly'
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk
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