What the crash site of the Malaysian Boeing 777 looks like two months later (PHOTO)
Donetsk, September 17 (PolitNavigator, Mikael Chagalyan) – Today is exactly two months since the terrible tragedy that occurred in the sky near Donetsk.
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The Boeing 777 aircraft, owned by Malaysia Airlines, was performing a scheduled flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. He was shot down near the village of Grabovo, near the city of Torez, near the border with the Lugansk region, in an area of fierce armed confrontation between the militia and the Ukrainian military.
In that disaster, all 298 people on board the liner were killed. A few weeks later in Donetsk, the “black boxes” were handed over to the Malaysian side, and to this day experts in the field of aviation security are working with them. Complete decoding of the data and reconstruction of the picture of what happened will still require a lot of time, and we will not know the true causes of the disaster soon.
Today, the crash site looks almost the same as it did two months ago. Fragments of the hull, twisted parts, and a large number of personal belongings of passengers were scattered over several kilometers.
Interspersed with pieces of paneling and scraps of wiring are shoes and books. What was especially striking was the large number of children's things. Books, toys, children's bags.
Looking at all this, I want to try not to imagine what happened in the salon and what people experienced. It is noteworthy that in many parts of the aircraft there are a large number of holes with the edges of the metal bent inward. According to a number of experts, this is evidence of several facts. Firstly, we can rule out the possibility that a bomb exploded inside the plane. Secondly, these and other damage indicate that the plane most likely could not have been shot down by a missile fired from a Buk air defense system. Such holes could have been caused by the aircraft body from a hit of a much smaller caliber. However, the debate continues to this day, and all that remains is to wait for the final expert assessment. But no matter what conclusion the experts come to, it can be said with regret that this tragedy has already become one of the largest in the history of aviation.
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