Salvage Mission MH17 completed – Telegraaf.nl

The salvage work in eastern Ukraine where disaster flight MH17 last year crashed, is over. The team of thirty Dutch, Australian and Malaysian experts on Thursday ,, a final final battle ”, so that the mission can be completed

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” Humanly, we have done all that was possible, ” said the leader of the repatriation mission, Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg Thursday. In recent times, ‘many’ ‘remains and personal belongings of the victims and debris salvaged the aircraft. “” It’s stuff like passports, wedding bands, watches and driving licenses and 120 cubic meters of debris. Everything is brought to the Netherlands for further investigation and reconstruction by the Dutch Safety Board and the Public Prosecutor. “

On May 2, at 16:00 pm the last seven coffins with remains of victims at Eindhoven Airport with the usual ceremony. This salvage mission is finally completed. But Aalbersberg does not exclude that in the coming time and years still something is found. Local authorities and arrangements have been made how that is then transferred to the Netherlands.

The unit of Malaysia Airlines collapsed last July 17 down. All 298 passengers perished, including 196 Dutch. Aalbersberg is ‘hopeful’ that it is possible to find human remains also identify the last two victims (Dutch).

The salvage team has been all over the disaster area where something was found. Aalbersberg is happy that all the experts are safely returned to Kharkiv

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