regrets to confirm that qz8 501 has lost contract this morning. it s possible that the. authorities say there were clouds in their region but did not want to speculate if severe weather played a role ein the addition appearance. changing more than a color but the mood. as rescue teams are activated and family members rush to take a glance at a flight manifest perhaps hoping that their loved
grandfather and son and friend. and we re honored to bring these stories to you tonight. we also in the next two hours will be putting each and every name from the flight manifest on screen in the space where the headlines normally run. their remains, the people themselves, have finally gone a long journey out the war zone where they came to rest. the world is now grappling with what to do next. there are late developments. one of many unsettling images. days after the flight was shot out the sky, rebels carrying the plane s black boxes raising fears about an already kprimsed crime seen. something that happened this evening, a deal as well on the 282 set of remains of the passengers of flight 17 for days their bodies were kept in
coming from. you can also tell people have smoke in their lungs, smoke inhalation, how long the aircraft might have been flying for, correct? you could. chances are if it s an explosion on board, if there s a secondary fire, i think what you would be able to tell is if there is evidence that they were alive for a while with the fire on board. and the process we re talking about for identification, i mean, that s the most important thing for the families getting their loved ones back. are we talking weeks, are we talking months? yeah, it depends. because we do have a flight manifest. it s not like you re starting from zero that you don t even know who these people are. at this point, i m sure authorities are gathering any known fingerprints that these people may have on file. very few people do. they re gathering any dental records. that s why the authorities are having to go to the families. ultimately, the one that s going to take the longest and is
based in the region, paid by kiev. they are the ones that did, if you like, the hard work, the grisly work of putting them they haven t got all the bodies yet. what i m looking to see is when that truck gets to kharkiv, we see the coffins which will be transported by the dutch and we can start to see a proper process of dignity for those who lost their lives. where will we get this significant information? we were trying to figure out, will it be the malaysians? tony abbott? all of them. in terms of black boxes, it will be via malaysia. whoever opens the box and gets the data will hand it back to the malaysians. we ve seen a very, very different malaysia this time. it took them weeks to do the flight manifest and the cargo with 370. it took them 36 hours with this one. the prime minister is in charge. and is dealing with this. in terms of the other information, the netherlands.
slip. it s not something you can do anymore with visual identification. which is now family members, we re told, have already started to give dna samples to authorities in the netherlands. is there a lot that investigators i don t want to get into, you know, too much detail here. for a lot of people who may be watching. but is there a lot that investigators can actually learn about what happened on board that plane from the victims themselves? right. not only do they need to be o h identified, they should be autop autopsied. you have a flight manifest. you should know where roughly these people are seated. and the injuries that they have may help you pinpoint where the most of the shrapnel were