International experts study crew cabin wreckage on Boeing 777 crash site

World July 21, 2014, 14:57

“Based on the analysis the commission recommended to pay attention to the concrete structure of the airliner and take photos of its separate parts,” the press service says

KIEV, July 21. /ITAR-TASS/. International experts have started studying the circumstances of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 tragedy, the Ukrainian presidential press service says.

“The authorities are doing their best to contribute to experts’ work,” the press service says.

“In the morning specialists, who are working on the site of the crash, have thoroughly studied the wing centre section’s wreckage. Later the commission examined the crew cabin’s wreckage,” the press service says.

“Based on the analysis the commission recommended to pay attention to the concrete structure of the airliner and take photos of its separate parts,” it says.

Specialists have arrived in Kharkiv and started their work without delay.

Two planes have left for Kharkiv. A special plane from the Netherlands carries equipment and another aircraft transports seven experts, the press service says.

A total of 272 bodies have been found at the crash site of a Malaysian passenger airliner in east Ukraine, Verkhovna Rada-appointed Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk said.

“According to the latest figures provided by the Ukrainian State Service for Emergency Situations, 272 bodies have been found, of which 251 bodies are in refrigerators at the Torez station,” he said.

The Malaysia Airlines Boeing-777 airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed in the area of combat actions between local militias and Ukrainian governmental troops in east Ukraine’s Donetsk region on Thursday, July 17. All 298 people aboard the plane died in the air crash.

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