#MH17 Next of Kin Finally View Wreckage of Downed Flight - ABC News
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Relatives of those killed when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was downed over eastern Ukraine visited a Dutch air base Tuesday to view the wreckage of the plane.
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The wreckage, spread across three hangars, included wings, wheels, parts of the fuselage and overhead luggage bins. Some of it was scorched black by fire, while some pieces of the plane’s thin metal body were scratched, twisted and torn.
Not visible to the media were parts of the plane that investigators said last year appeared “to indicate that the aircraft was penetrated by a large number of high-energy objects from outside the aircraft.”
Experts will soon begin piecing together parts of the plane to help investigators assess the damage and definitively establish the cause, said Sara Vernooij, a spokeswoman for the Dutch Safety Board, which is leading the civilian probe. The board’s chairman, Tjibbe Joustra, said the final report would likely be published in October.