The biggest pieces of wreckage have vanished, hauled away to the Netherlands for analysis, and green stalks of grass are poking through the burnt ground where the centre section exploded. But a year after Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was destroyed above eastern Ukraine, the shadow of death still hangs over Petropavlivka, Grabovo and Rosipnoye, the villages where the 298 victims, among them 193 Dutch and 10 Britons, fell to earth.
Underfoot, bulbous fragments of melted metal litter the black earth, and a faint but evil smell still hangs in the air — a mixture of aviation fuel and decaying bodies. “When …read more
Source: National Post
