Disturbing new footage has emerged online showing the moment that a horrified couple watched as parts of the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 and body parts of passengers fell from the sky into a nearby field as they drove past.
The shaky footage titled, “It’s raining bodies,” surfaces one year after the tragic incident. It was captured on phone camera by a couple driving past at the moment that the burning parts of the ill-fated flight fell into a field in Ukraine.
The plane was shot down from the sky over Ukraine on 17 July, 2014, killing all 298 — including the crew of 15 — on board.
The video was first posted online on 17 July, 2015, by a German journalist Billy Six , who explains that it was filmed by a local couple.
The driver can be heard swearing in shock and disbelief — in the Russian language — as he spots body parts falling from the sky.
“F***! So many people! Someone’s leg, did you see that?” he cries.
The video shows thick fumes rising into the air from the burning wreckage on the field.
The distressed man continues as he drives towards the wreckage, “What is this all at all? Plane? Helicopter? People. Oh f***, oh f***”
Someone’s leg, did you see that?” he adds, clearly distressed.
Deeply traumatized by the ghastly sight, the woman begins to sob. And as the man opens the car door to get out, she insists that they turn back and leave the scene.
The Daily Mail provides a partial transcript of the couple’s conversation as it dawned on them that they were witnessing an aircraft crash incident.
“What’s there? What crashed?”
“What is that? (the woman starts crying) What is this all at all? Plane? Helicopter? People! Oh f***! Oh f***! Someone’s leg, did you see that?”
“It’s terrible!”
“Don’t look there, what is all that?! A woman was flying or what, I don’t get it.”
“Oh f***! There are other remains over there. F***! So many people! Oh my God, there is a lot more people!”
“I won’t get out.”
The video surfaces after friends and relatives of the victims in Netherlands and Australia marked the one year anniversary of the tragedy. Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down while flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
The video also surfaces as a spokesperson of the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic said the separatists are willing to help relatives of the victims gain access to the site.
“We, of course, are ready to provide all possible assistance for relatives who want to come to honor the memory of the loved ones who died. There is no particular difficulty in obtaining documents, but we will assist anyway.”
Although the Ukrainian government in Kiev and their Western allies have accused the separatist forces and their Russia backers of shooting down the civilian flight, the rebels have denied it, alleging that Ukrainian forces shot down the plane.
Meanwhile, the final report of the Dutch Safety Board investigating the incident is expected to be released in October. A preliminary report had suggested that the pro-Russian rebels were responsible and blamed the airline for taking the needless risk of flying over a dangerous conflict zone.
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