MIILI YA MAREHEMU WALIOFARIKI KWENYE AJALI YA NDEGE YA MALAYSIA YASAFIRISHWA KUREJESHWA UHOLANZI
Tragic
journey: A Dutch C130 aircraft carrying 16 bodies leaves Ukrainian soil
bound for the Netherlands following a ceremony at Kharkiv aiport this
morning. The plane is the first of a series of flights to the
Netherlands transporting MH17 victims from the crash site
Convoy: A
transport plane carrying some of the MH17 victims departs for the
Netherlands from Kharkiv this morning. Another military cargo plane
loaded with remains is seen of the runway, preparing to take off later
today
Solemn:
Four bodies are carried up to a transport plane during a ceremony at
Kharkiv airport this morning. The bodies are being flown to the
Netherlands after being recovered from the MH17 crash site
Salute:
Dignitaries from the Netherlands, (Hans Docter, the Dutch Ambassador,
third from left) and Australia (ambassador Gene Dunn, right of Mr
Docter; retired Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, saluting in black hat;
and Colonel Peter Steel, saluting in green hat) watch as the makeshift
coffin of an MH17 victim is carried towards the plane
Ceremony: A coffin containing the body of an MH17 victim is loaded onto a plane for transport to the Netherlands
Heading to the Netherlands: Honour guards load a coffin of one of the victims of Malaysia Airlines MH17 on to a transport plane
The king
and queen of the Netherlands will lead mourners as the first victims of
the disaster are repatriated from the Ukraine later today.
Journey:
The first bodies of those killed in the MH17 massacre have been loaded
on to a cargo plane ready to be transported to Eindhoven in the
Netherlands for a tortuous identification process that could take months
Tribute:
Ukrainian officials attend a farewell ceremony next the transport plane
that will be used to carry the remains of some of the victims of MH17
later today
Preparation:
The bodies of around 200 international victims of the Malaysia Airlines
tragedy have already been transported by train from rebel-held city of
Donetsk in eastern Ukraine to the government-controlled Kharkiv airport
(pictured)
Ready: A
transport plane that will be used to carry the remains of the victims of
Malaysia Airlines MH17 downed over rebel-held territory in eastern
Ukraine, is parked on the tarmac before heading to the Netherlands
A worker
uses a forklift to load bodies on to the Royal Australian Air Force
Boeing C-17 plane, ready to be transported to the Netherlands
Grim
journey: A refrigerated lorry containing the coffins of 40 MH17 victims
was seen arriving at Khirkov airport this morning. The bodies have since
been loaded on to aircraft, reading to be transported to the
Netherlands
Information:
Four days after flight MH17 crashed from the sky over Ukraine, rebels
finally handed over the Boeing 777's flight recorders (pictured). The
black boxes have now arrived in the UK for analysis by British air crash
investigators
It is
thought that the AAIB will be able to send details of their findings to
the Dutch within 24 hours - giving the experts in the Netherlands
further information of the last moments of the doomed Boeing 777 as it
fell to earth in eastern Ukraine.
As the UK
investigators poured over the black boxes, bodies from the crash site
were arriving in Netherlands where the country's king and queen were
taking part in a national day of mourning.
King
Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima are in Eindhoven with relatives of the
298 people - including 10 Britons - killed in the disaster.
Critical role: David Cameron tweets that British investigators would be drafted in to examine the black boxes
Emotional:
A sign displayed inside Amsterdam's Schipol airport - from where MH17
took off - expresses sympathy to everyone facing a loss as a result of
the crash
Mourning:
The Dutch flag flies at half mast on the parliament building in The
Hague. The Dutch government has declared today a day of national
mourning for the victims of the MH187 disaster
Flags fly
at half mast over the Dutch parliament in The Hague. The Netherlands
government said a minute's silence will be held before a motorcade takes
the bodies to the Korporaal van Oudheusden barracks near Eindhoven,
where the process of identifying them can begin
A Boeing C-17 of the Royal Australian Air Force at Eindhoven Airbase where it is waiting to fly the first bodies back to the Ne
Refrigerated
trucks enter the compound of the Korporaal van Oudheusdenkazerne in
Hilversum where the bodies will be identified before they are
repatriated
Carriages
of death: A train carrying the remains of more than 280 victims of the
Malaysia Airlines MH17 disaster arrives in the Ukrainian government-held
city of Kharkiv
Yesterday
morning a train pulled into a station in the government-held city of
Kharkiv, where the Dutch investigators took charge of the bodies.
A
minute’s silence was held before the doors opened and international
investigators finally began the gruesome task of trying to identify
those inside.
There had
been fears the bodies, including the ten Britons killed, would be used
as a bargaining chip by pro-Russian separatists – believed to be behind
the atrocity.
Macabre
delivery: Police officers secure the refrigerated train as it arrives at
a Kharkiv tank factory before the bodies are loaded onto planes and
flown back to the Netherlands
Journalists follow the train as it arrives in the city of Kharkiv, where the victims will be flown to the Netherlands
It has
also emerged that the cockpit is believed to have been sawn in half
while under the control of Russian-backed separatists.
Outpouring
of grief: People bring flowers and candles to the Embassy of the
Netherlands in Kiev to commemorate victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight
MH17
Condolences:
A woman lights a candle outside the Embassy of the Netherlands in Kiev
to commemorate victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17
Pro-Russian
separatists - who stand accused of bringing down the aircraft, possibly
with a missile supplied by Moscow - bowed to a furious clamour for the
bodies and black boxes to be handed to investigators five days after the
crash.
UK
foreign secretary Philip Hammond said all the evidence currently
available indicates that the surface-to-air missile which destroyed the
MH17 was supplied by Russia
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