New Amateur Video Of MH17 Downing, Taken Minutes After It Crashed, Emerges

Exactly four months after the tragic downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, a fresh, never-seen-before video has emerged on the Internet. The video shows the scenes from the area of the crash, minutes after the plane was shot down. In the video, it is evident how close to villages and homes parts of flight MH17 crash landed. You can also see villagers shouting and running towards the burning debris. From the conversation among the people in the video, it has become evident that they assumed the crashed plane to be a Ukrainian military jet. Only later would they realize that it was a large passenger plane with 298 passengers that had crash landed a few hundred meters from their village.

According to Russia Today, the video was captured in the small village of Hrabove. It shows parts of the Flight MH17’s wreckage burning in a raging inferno very close to the village. The report adds that it is likely to be one of the very first videos taken after the MH17 crash. We have embedded the video above so that you may draw your own conclusions. According to the Australian, the video was obtained by the Associated Press from an individual who does not wish to be named. That might explain the delay in the leak of this video on the web.

The MH17 crash in July claimed the lives of 298 people and crew members. The plane was a Boeing 777, very similar to the aircraft used by the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 that disappeared back in April. Flight MH17 was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur – taking its usual flight path above the Ukrainian skies when it was shot down over a rebel-held area.

The release of this video comes on the same day workers started clearing out Flight MH17 debris from the area. The clean-up operation is being carried out under the supervision of Dutch investigators and officials from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The plan is to gather all the parts of what is left of MH17 and taken to the city of Kharkiv.

Meanwhile, the politics over the crash of flight MH17 continues four months since the disaster. At the recently concluded G20 Summit in Brisbane, Australia, Russian premier Vladimir Putin was under extreme pressure from other nations to come clean on the actual happenings on the day flight MH17 was shot down. He also left Australia prematurely following rebuke from other member nations. While Russia blames the Ukrainian Air Force for shooting the place down, the generally accepted theory is that Russian military-backed rebel forces were behind the shooting down of MH17.

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