Studies wrestling. Should this mean? Can not we just wait for the final conclusion of the investigation? Which interferes with the journalist? Part of the answer lies in the role of a journalist to seek the truth always. In every war zone you immediately know that disappears behind a veil of blood. So you go to work in an attempt to put a bit, knowing that the puzzle is not complete. But there are damn 298 people died, slain, murdered.
Three days after the disaster, I was beaten by photographing between the film work, a kind of automatism. The devastating sight of MH17 is unbearable. You want to get away, away from this evil place. I tried to concentrate on the damage, the tears, the screws. Closeup held me by the journalistic lesson: record what you see and keep it dry. Any accident benefits from fast trace evidence, but three days after the disaster, I was encountered still no researcher in the field of crime scene was nowhere defined. Well armed soldiers. In a war zone is no surprise, no. You feel that the official investigation into the truth will still be some time in coming. You'll only with MH17 were on their way to Kuala Lumpur. You will be only one survivor. It will not let me go.
You will be only one survivor. It will not let me go.
Four months after the disaster, I stand to photograph again MH17. It is my third visit to the disaster zone. Yes, the pieces were still there. The uncertainty continues to increase or the wreckage for investigation would arrive in the Netherlands. There is fighting on behalf of a slot in the neighborhood. I know the location of the large pieces. It's so lonely at the pulverized holiday Boeing in a war zone. If the plane was shot down by a missile then need to find thousands still evidence of an impact in the wreckage are? So I once went searching in solitude. I was there anyway.
For two days I looked around at the fuselage and especially the cockpit remains. Eventually I found a piece or 20 bits of metal that I 'suspect' thought look like. A metal piece with a series Cyrillic character from the Russian alphabet does not belong to the interior of a Boeing, I understood also.
So I once went searching in solitude. I was there anyway.
But there is still a long way to make ugly. Conclusions may soon be too premature. On every corner you may decide to quit. But the advantage of a journalist over a researcher is that he has more freedom to do his job. I do me no one to pull something, but possess the backup of an experienced and driven RTL News editor. Good club. We can also decide if the public is informed. But then you have to sit properly.
I was looking for expertise and analysis in the Netherlands, Poland, England, Georgia, America, Germany and Finland. I made a conscious decision not to let in Netherlands examine the fragments in an attempt to approach neutrality. Eventually I traveled for interviews to Croydon in London, Warsaw and Munich. The Poles know the Soviet missiles from personal experience, the Germans are cool and the British mathematicians strongly in the analysis of weapons systems.
Croydon experts were right eye for the jump headpiece. Which was measured returned to a BUK 9M317 missile. In addition, it was critical that there could also be established in that the piece had to be flown by a metal structure. It was distorted 'typical'. After laboratory also appeared to fit the chemical composition on the reading of the British. Low alloy deformed and rusty steel with traces that indicate hull remains.
German rocket scientists calculated besides the rocket trajectory based on data from the time of launch, the height of plane, the moment of impact, the wind speed, the fragments and their chemical composition, you name it. It's their job. Only a BUK is based on a calculation of this attack is in. "Das ist reine Mathematik, Herr Akkermans."
Only a BUK is based on a calculation of this attack is in.
What we do with it? There will undoubtedly be critics who suspect that I have an agenda. I found the pieces yourself, I have put me a ride. Ach. Or that we have to wait for the outcome of the official investigation late this year. This tension can be expected after the murder of 298 people in a war zone.
But I believe that survivors - and you - eight months after the downing of MH17 entitled to our information about the murder weapon. Consequently we there yet, no. But it might put an end to the most absurd speculations about the downing of MH17.
I dare to say that we now 3 BUK missile fragments show and four pieces of the plane, based on the laboratory analysis and the findings of the experts in Warsaw, Croydon and Munich. One physical piece of the murder weapon in the remains of MH17 was basically been enough to BUK missile to blame for this. No, I feel no satisfaction, at most some relief. On to the next puzzle piece anywhere. It's my job.
. The translation of the second "calculation" confused me somewhat as to the context.
