Kharkiv – Experts have started to examine personal belongings of some passengers from the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, which crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17.
The items were delivered from the Donetsk region to the Malyshev plant in Kharkiv.
The experts have begun examining personal items found in the villages of Hrabove and Rozsypne of the Donetsk region, Dutch police superintendent Patrick Voss, a member of the MH17 temporary search mission, was quoted as saying by the press service of the Kharkiv region administration.
Belongings were collected at the crash site, as well as being received from local residents who had found them at the scene, Voss said.
Forensic experts from the Netherlands will take part in this examination, he said.
The experts will thoroughly examine all items, mark them and prepare them for transport to the Netherlands, where they will be assessed even more carefully and will then be handed over to the victims’ relatives, Voss said. For all specialists working in Kharkiv, quality takes precedence over speed, he added.
However, the search mission has so far been unable to access certain parts of the Malaysian Boeing crash district, he said.
The experts plan to continue to work for the next few weeks or even months in order to collect all personal belongings of the July 17 crash victims, Voss said.
The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 on a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17, killing all 298 people on board. The main theory suggests that the airplane was shot down by a missile when flying over the armed conflict area in the southeast of Ukraine.
International experts were previously unable to access the crash site due to armed clashes in the district.
