Aftermath of Malaysia Airlines Boeing crash
Versions of the tragedy, black boxes handover, search for the bodies and their repatriation in this photo gallery by ITAR-TASS
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Malaysia Airlines Boeing-777 passenger plane crashed in Ukraine 60 km from the Russian border on July 17
© ITAR-TASS/Zurab Javakhadze All the 298 passengers and crew members died in the crash. Photo: people lay flowers to the Dutch embassy in Kiev
© EPA/SERGEY DOLZHENKO Most of the bodies of passenger and crew members have been found
© EPA/IGOR KOVALENKO Bodies of the MH17 victims were transported to the railway station of Torez and loaded into refrigerated train cars
© EPA/ROBERT GHEMENT Forensic experts from differnet countries examined the conditions and quality of the refrigerated train cars
© EPA/ROBERT GHEMENT On Tuesday, July 22, the train with bodies of the victims arrived in eastern Ukraine's Kharkiv
© EPA/ SERGEI KOZLOV The bodies of people killed in the air crash in eastern Ukraine of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 will be repatriated soonest possible
© EPA/JERRY LAMPEN Two black boxes of the airliner were handed over to Malaysian experts for investigation purposes. The boxes have been delivered to the UK
© EPA/ ROBERT GHEMENT Russian monitoring systems recorded up to 4 Ukrainian Buk M1 air defense systems in the crash area on the day of the accident. The point where the plane was at the time of the accident was within the Buk system’s coverage sector
© ITAR-TASS/Press service of Russia's Defense Ministry The Buk missile system is a mobile, radar-guided surface to air missile system. It has four components: acquisition and targeting radars, a command element, missile launchers, and a logistics element — mounted on tracked vehicles (photo)
© ITAR-TASS/Vladimir Zinin On July 18, Ukraine's Interior Ministry released a video allegedely showing a truck with the Buk missile launcher head towards the Russian border. Photo: a screenshot from the video
© AP Photo/Ukrainian Interior Ministry Russia's Defense Ministry official said the video is a fake as the images were taken in the city of Krasnoarmeisk, not in Krasnodon, as had been claimed by the Ukrainian side. Photo: proof of video manipulation presented at a briefing
© ITAR-TASS/Anton Novoderezhkin Russian air data records indicate that a Ukrainian Su-25 warplane might have been flying towards the Boeing 777 on the day of the crashed. Photo: situation in the airspace around Donetsk at the time of the crash
© ITAR-TASS/Press service of Russia's Defense Ministry Su-25 is a close air support jet which can fly at altitudes of up to 10 km and among other weapons, is armed with P-60 air-to-air missiles, head of the Main Operations Department of the Russian Army General Staff reported on July 21
© EPA/SERGEY POPSUEVICH American intelligence services believe that Malaysia Airlines’ passenger plane was shot down July 17 by militias as a result of a mistake, since they apparently took it to be a military jet
© EPA/ AZHAR RAHIM Flowers and soft toys on the ground at the main crash site of the Boeing 777 Malaysia Airlines flight MH17
© EPA/ IGOR KOVALENKO