Malaysia calls for fresh MH17 crash site search
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Malaysian Army soldiers carry a coffin containing one of the bodies of the downed MH17 flight upon arrival at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia on August 22, 2014.
Malaysian Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein has called on experts to search the crash site of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine for the last time.
"It is important for us before the onset of winter in Ukraine to make one final sweep to comb the areas for any remaining passengers who have not been found," Hussein said on Wednesday after meeting Russian authorities in Moscow.
He added that negotiations with Russian officials over the investigation into the incident were "very well."
"We are both on the same page that we want transparency and we want justice."
Flight MH17 crashed on July 17 over Ukraine's volatile Donetsk region, while en route from the Dutch city of Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, and all of its 298 passengers and crew on board were killed.
On Tuesday, Dutch investigators published an introductory report on the tragedy.
According to the report, MH17 "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."
Following the crash, Malaysia Airlines announced that Ukraine’s traffic controllers had ordered the aircraft to decrease altitude by 500 meters (1,640 ft) to 10,058 meters (33,000 ft), while the Boeing-777 was supposed to fly at an altitude of 10,660 meters (35,000 ft).
Pro-Russians in eastern Ukraine have accused Kiev of shooting down the plane. The government of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic has said that witnesses watching the flight saw it being attacked by a Ukrainian army plane.
Source: MSM/MAM/MHB
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