Investigators on Sunday began winching large pieces of wreckage from the Malaysia Airlines passenger jet shot down over Ukraine in July onto trucks to transport them back to the Netherlands, the Dutch Safety Board announced in The Hague.
Ever since Flight MH-17 was shot down en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, killing all 298 people on board, fighting in the area of the crash site has interrupted attempts to study the wreckage.
The West maintains that separatists wielding a Russian-supplied surface-to-air missile brought down the Boeing 777, mistaking it for a Ukrainian military aircraft. …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle