Jakarta Globe – AFP, Dec 09, 2014
The Hague. A convoy carrying wreckage from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 arrived in the Netherlands on Tuesday on its way to a Dutch air force base where the doomed plane will be reconstructed.
Trucks carrying the wreckage of the passenger airplane MH17 that crashed in Ukraine drive on the A1 highway near De Lutte, the Netherlands, on Dec. 9 2014. (EPA Photo/Vincent Jannink) |
The Hague. A convoy carrying wreckage from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 arrived in the Netherlands on Tuesday on its way to a Dutch air force base where the doomed plane will be reconstructed.
Dutch
national broadcaster NOS showed eight trucks carrying wreckage crossing the
border with Germany overnight, before heading to a southern air base after the
morning rush hour and under police escort.
The convoy
of lorries carrying pieces of wreckage from Ukraine is due to arrive at the
Gilze-Rijen airbase in the south of the country at around 1300 GMT, the Dutch
Safety Board (OVV) said.
The
Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 was blown out of the sky on July 17 over
rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board,
two-thirds of them Dutch.
Ukraine and
the West accuse Russia of supplying pro-Kremlin insurgents with the missile
that shot down the jet, but Moscow and the separatists deny they were
responsible and have instead pointed the finger at Kiev.
Dutch
authorities are charged with establishing exactly what brought the plane down
and are reconstructing part of the aircraft as part of their probe.
The convoy
of trucks left Ukraine last week and will on Tuesday drive past next of kin who
wish to see the wreckage arrive at the base, the OVV said on Monday.
“The
arrival of the wreckage at the air force base will not be of a ceremonial
character and those attending will not be permitted to be present during the
opening or unloading of the trucks,” it said.
The
wreckage will be photographed, scanned and categorized before being
reconstructed in a hanger.
The reconstruction
will be closed to the public, although next of kin will be allowed to see it if
they wish.
A
preliminary report in September said that the plane “broke up in the air
probably as the result of structural damage caused by a large number of high-energy
objects that penetrated the aircraft from outside.”
A Dutch-led
investigation team has so far identified 292 of the dead, but six victims
remained unidentified as recovery work at the crash site shut down for the
winter.
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