Section: CBC (Canada)
Bodies from MH17 plane crash travel by train to rebel-held city
Armed rebels forced emergency workers to hand over all 196 bodies recovered from the Malaysia Airlines crash site and then loaded them onto refrigerated trains bound for a rebel-held city, officials and monitors said Sunday. …read more Source:...
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 disaster has low-key Dutch seething
The deaths of 193 of their fellow citizens aboard MH-17 was bad enough, but word the crash site in eastern Ukraine has been compromised and bodies defiled has the normally calm Dutch seething with anger. …read more Source:...
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17: ‘Fury’ over evidence tampering at crash site
The Dutch government is “furious” and “shocked” at the manhandling of corpses strewn for kilometres at the crash site of the Malaysian airliner, shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine while flying to Kuala Lumpur from from Amsterdam. Monitors are trying to secure the wreckage from rebels allegedly tampering with and...
Rebels hamper access to Flight MH17 crash site
Armed separatists hampered access to the Malaysia Airlines crash site Saturday, limiting the movements of international monitors and raising concerns that evidence showing who brought the plane down and killed the 298 people onboard would be lost, tampered with or destroyed. …read more Source:...
Russia helping destroy Flight MH17 crash evidence, Ukraine says
Ukraine accused Russia on Saturday of assisting separatist rebels in destroying evidence at the crash site of a Malaysia Airlines plane shot down with 298 people onboard. …read more Source:...
‘This is in a hot war zone’: The challenges of investigating the Malaysia plane crash
Investigators assigned to the crash of the Malaysia airline jetliner face the additional obstacles of conducting a probe in the middle of a major regional conflict, a significant challenge that could pose major hurdles and compromise the investigation. …read more Source:...
Malaysia Airlines crash shows cruelty — and mercy — of fate
The circumstances surrounding a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet shot down in Ukraine on Thursday not only demonstrate the risk of flying over war-torn regions, but also show how fate can determine the victims and survivors of major disasters. …read more Source:...
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17: Minister heads for Ukraine to ensure access to plane
Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai will fly to the Ukraine capital of Kyiv on Saturday to ensure an investigating team gets safe access to the site of the downed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. …read more Source:...
Australian woman loses family members on both Malaysia flights
In an almost incomprehensible twist of fate, an Australian woman who lost her brother in the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 learns that her stepdaughter was on the plane shot down over Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Flight MH17’s doomed flight path a ‘common route’ for European carriers
The Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 catastrophe in Ukraine could have been a tragedy for another international carrier, aviation experts say, noting the doomed jet’s flight plan was the very route that was, until recently, used by several European airlines. …read more Source:...
