Part of a safety belt of the aircraft at the crash site of the disaster flight MH17 . ANP / Pierre Crom
The salvage work in eastern Ukraine where disaster flight MH17 crashed last year, is over. The team of thirty Dutch, Australian and Malaysian experts today made a “final battle”, so that the mission can be completed. This was reported by the ANP.
“Humanly, we have done all that was possible,” said the leader of the repatriation mission, Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg today. In recent times have been recovered, according to him “many” human remains and personal belongings of victims and wreckage of the plane. Aalbersberg does not exclude that in the coming period of years still found something.
‘Good last hope of identifying victims’
Earlier this month were recovered still remains. The locals in the Ukrainian village of Grabovo handed when the personal belongings she found recently to investigators.
The salvage team has been all over the disaster area where humanly anything was found. Aalbersberg is happy that all the experts are safely returned to Kharkov. He has “good hope” that it is possible to find human remains also identify the last two victims (Dutch).
Saturday remains to Eindhoven
A Dutch military plane will tomorrow from the eastern city of Kharkiv expected to transfer seven boxes of remains to the Netherlands. Aalbersberg and Minister Ard van der Steur (Security and Justice) are taking in Kharkiv. In the Netherlands, the boxes with the same ceremony as the other times transported to Hilversum, where the identification of the remains takes place.
The unit of Malaysia Airlines collapsed last July 17 down. All 298 passengers perished, including 196 Dutch. The plane flew over a war zone and is very likely shot down by an antiaircraft missile.
Meanwhile, at the OM many useful tips received in response to an international call witnesses. The prosecution made the call a month ago in a video showing the transport of a BUK-missile system on a low loader by Eastern Ukraine at the time of the crash.
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