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MH17 wreckage finally being collected
16-11-2014
Local emergency services in eastern Ukraine have begun collecting parts of the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 from its crash site in the middle of the conflict zone, Dutch air accident investigators said on Sunday.
Dutch inspectors had hoped to collect the parts themselves, following the downing of the flight on July 17 that killed 298 people, two thirds of them Dutch citizens.
But they remain concerned about the safety of their staff in the rebel-held conflict zone, and so have decided to work with local services following an initial focus on finding human remains and belongings.
The crash of flight MH17 stirred angry mutual accusations between Moscow and the West over who was responsible.
The Dutch Safety Board said it had commissioned Ukraine's State Emergency Service to collect parts of the wreckage from the crash site on its behalf.
The air safety inspectorate intends to reconstruct parts of the airliner in the Netherlands in order to ascertain the cause of the crash.
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