A passenger plane explodes in the sky, smoking charred metal and bodies strewn across the countryside, soft toys, suitcases and passports litter the ground. This details the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, the plane that was shot down by separatists in Ukraine on the 17th of July 2014, killing all on board, this included 283 passengers and 15 crew.
Channel 4’s Dispatches get in touch with the friends and families of those that were needlessly caught up in the deadly conflict. As families mourn the world leading powers demand answers and this film asks, who was really to blame for the murder in the sky.
What puzzles me is why there is a clear debris field containing seats, luggage, bodies, engines etc., yet the ‘crash’ site of United 93 contained nothing but churned earth. Bearing in mind also that MH17 exploded mid-flight at 33,000ft (6.25 miles), which would’ve resulted in a finer, wider and more sparse debris field than that of an aeroplane that went down whole, as we’re led to believe United 93 did.