Plane with chest from Kharkov landed in Eindhovenmal – NU.nl

Plane with chest from Kharkov landed in Eindhovenmal – NU.nl

After landing The Last Post was played by a trumpet, and there followed a minute of silence. Just after 16:05 pm, the coffin was removed from the aircraft and loaded into a hearse.

The car left at 16:30 from Eindhoven. Accompanied by police cars left the car the airport grounds and came against 18.00 in Hilversum.

During the journey from Eindhoven to Hiversum was driven over the A2 and A27. The highways were briefly closed to other traffic, reports Rijkswaterstaat. In previous transports the highways were closed scale. “When there was large pillars, is now but a car.”

The coffin is carried to the Corporal of Oudheusden barracks in Hilversum. Since the residues are identified. Upon arrival around 18:00 several hundred onlookers stood behind the gates waiting for the vehicle.

At the entrance of the barracks are still many flowers. Even now, people have again brought bouquets to honor the victims of the plane crash.

For the Hilversum representatives were at the entrance, including the deputy mayor. There were survivors present. According to a spokeswoman for the barracks, it was considerably less crowded than the other times when the coffins came back.

Previous times

The ceremony resembled the previous four times that coffins are flown from Ukraine to the Netherlands. The first time this happened, on Wednesday, July 23, there was a Netherlands national day of mourning. King Willem-Alexander and Máxima Queen were taking, as well as Prime Minister Mark Rutte.

This time it was on behalf of the Cabinet Deputy Prime Minister and Minister Edith Schippers Lodewijk Asscher (Health, Welfare, Sports) attended the ceremony in Eindhoven, as well as some members of the Senate and House. Survivors also attended the ceremony.

Noon

The Hercules aircraft departed around noon from the airport in Kharkov. First there was that there were three chests on board, but later it became clear that it is a coffin.

On board, the human remains were found Friday and Saturday. In addition, DNA material also included. It is about 25 DNA samples from victims, who last week came from the repatriation team. Owned

The samples were hitherto stored in a morgue in Donetsk. When are personal belongings of 27 victims transferred. The Ministry of Security and Justice would not confirm whether these assets are also flew to the Netherlands

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Hilversum are already 227 cases with eight former Netherlands flights are flown. In each case, also an Australian Boeing C-17 deployed. So far two Dutch victims identified.

Experts

The Dutch, Australian and Malaysian experts who are at the crash site where MH17 flight crashed, have completed their work around 15.45. They return to the base in the town Soledar, says the government.

More than one hundred researchers have searched for human remains. In addition, sniffer dogs were also deployed. It was found in the western part of the disaster site. It is not yet known whether this time something is found.

Difficult conditions

The repatriation mission has had to deal with difficult conditions Monday at the crash site. That said mission chief Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg Monday. When the experts arrived at the crash site, shelling were heard. On the advice of the OSCE was therefore waited several hours with the research work.

” At half past three it was safe enough to go,” said Aalbersberg. ” We searched in and around the village Petropavlivka. This is one of the two locations were on today’s schedule.”

There are no human remains were found Monday. Well over 100 people who have searched around on the spot, 1.5 hours exceeded personal possessions. It was to include books and passports.

Crisis Area

” The situation today shows once again that the mission operates in a crisis area, where fighting between the parties. Access to this area is never 100 per cent sure”, stressed the mission leader.

” We do the search on the western site today unfortunately could not finish. If the security situation permits, work will continue in the same place tomorrow. The experts will also seek the field to be searched.” North of this area

It was Monday for the first time that the Malaysian experts were part of the search teams in the disaster area. Upon arriving there, there was a brief memorial service for the victims. Malaysians expressed their prayers out there

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