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Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 disaster has low-key Dutch seething
Jul20

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
Jul20

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...

Lack of radar could have prevented missile operators from realizing target was a jetliner
Jul20

Lack of radar could have prevented missile operators from realizing target was a jetliner

If Ukrainian rebels shot down the Malaysian jetliner, killing 298 people, it may have been because they didn’t have the right systems in place to distinguish between military and civilian aircraft, experts said Saturday. …read more Source: CTV...

Dutch forensic teams collect DNA to identify plane crash victims
Jul19

Dutch forensic teams collect DNA to identify plane crash victims

Forensic teams fanned out across the Netherlands on Saturday to collect material including DNA samples that will help positively identify the remains of victims killed in the downing of the Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine. …read more Source: CTV...

Ukraine, rebels fight over Malaysian flight MH17 wreckage
Jul19

Ukraine, rebels fight over Malaysian flight MH17 wreckage

Ukraine accused Russia and pro-Moscow rebels on Saturday of destroying evidence of “international crimes” as guerrillas and foreign observers faced off over access to the wreckage of the downed Malaysian airliner. …read more Source: The Peace River Record...

Rebels hamper access to Flight MH17 crash site
Jul19

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:...

Dozens pay tribute to Malaysia Airlines passengers, protest at Russian Embassy
Jul19

Dozens pay tribute to Malaysia Airlines passengers, protest at Russian Embassy

A group of about three dozen people laid flowers and said prayers for the 298 dead passengers and crew on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 outside the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Saturday. Led by three priests, the group sang and remembered the victims during the vigil. Many held candles and single carnations. They were joined by Inna...

Dutch leader tells Putin to help Ukraine crash probe during ‘extremely intense’ phone call
Jul19

Dutch leader tells Putin to help Ukraine crash probe during ‘extremely intense’ phone call

An angry Dutch prime minister says he has had an “extremely intense” telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin in which he urged him to “show the world he intends to help” in the investigation into the Ukraine air disaster. …read more Source: Toronto...

Ukraine says Russia helping separatists destroy evidence at MH17 crash site
Jul19

Ukraine says Russia helping separatists destroy evidence at MH17 crash site

Ukraine accused Russia on Saturday of helping separatist rebels destroy evidence at the crash site of a Malaysia Airlines plane shot down in rebel-held territory — a charge the rebels denied. …read more Source: Toronto...

Complete list of passengers and crew on flight MH17
Jul19

Complete list of passengers and crew on flight MH17

Malaysia Airlines has released the manifest for flight MH17, the plane that was shot down over Ukraine on Thursday. The list of 298 passengers and crew includes Canadian Andei Anghel, a 24-year-old man from Ontario who had been studying medicine in Romania. The other people on board include 193 from the Netherlands, 43 from Malaysia, 27 from...