Friday, July 25, 2014

Investigators Are Still Not At The Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 Crash Site In Ukraine

Locations where debris was spotted by Times reporters or could be seen in satellite imagery. Source: Satellite images from DigitalGlobe, Google and NASA/USGS Landsat

Ukraine Disaster In Search Of An Investigation -- Sabrina Tavernise and Thomas Erdbrink, NYT

GRABOVO, Ukraine — The rescue workers have left, and their tents are gone. The peppermint-striped plastic cordon flutters uselessly in the breeze. Farmers are harvesting wheat in a field where bodies had lain.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was blown out of the sky one week ago on Thursday, deepening tensions between Russia and the West and thrusting at least 10 countries whose citizens were on board into the middle of a war between Ukraine’s government and pro-Russian rebels, who Western intelligence officials suspect shot the plane down.

Yet for all of the diplomatic frenzy that has followed the disaster, there is no sign of an investigation here.

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My Comment: Sadly .... there is going to be no real investigation until after the Ukraine civil war is over .... and when that happens is anyone's guess.

1 comment:

James said...

Of course there won't be one, I don't think they really wanted one anyway, might not like the answers that would emerge. Much more fun to simply make unfounded accusations and threats. None of these so called governments, politicians, experts etc, ever cared a whit for these poor people.