Mission MH17 hides again human remains – AD.nl

By: Editors
16-4-15 – 18:11 Source: Reuters

Even personal items returned by residents

Researchers have been re remnants collecting in Ukraine © epa.

Members of the salvage mission today remains hidden in the crash site in eastern Ukraine, where the set of flight MH17 last year on July 17 crashed. That mission leader Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg let you know. ,, His personal belongings back to the mission members handed over by the locals. In this case it was jewelry. ”

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The salvage mission today was resumed. The mission is an extreme effort the last human remains and personal belongings to get to the Netherlands. Because of the ongoing fighting and the winter months it was not possible to carry out salvage work in the disaster area.

All 298 passengers in the crashed plane were killed, including 196 Dutch. The plane flew over a war zone and is very likely shot down by an anti-aircraft missile.

This is very important for the families and so we put our all hands for that. The mission will last as long as necessary

Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg, mission leader

,, The experts of the mission have both sites burned human remains recovered, ” said Aalbersberg. Burned sites are the places where fire has raged after the crash.

Strong winds
experts today under calm conditions done their work. The weather conditions were relatively good, despite the strong wind, reports the mission leader.

,, The mission will last as long as necessary to search the two burned sites thoroughly and the area northwest of the village Petropavlivka to visit. It is expected that a few weeks, depending on the security situation and the weather conditions, “says Aalbersberg

He continues:. ,, We do our utmost to salvage the remaining human remains and personal belongings This is. very important for the families and so we put our all hands for that. “

Search
These three locations were hardly studied until today. The search must be done carefully, because there are mines and unexploded projectiles are.

The salvage team consists of thirty people. Among them are four Malaysian experts. There remain ten team members in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv where all the salvaged remains and materials are collected for further transport to the Netherlands.