Work has begun to remove the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 from rebel-held territory in east Ukraine, four months after it was shot down killing everyone aboard.<br /><br />The fragments will be transported to the town of Kharkiv and then the Netherlands, which is leading the investigation. Most of the victims were Dutch nationals. <br /><br />The recovery effort is expected to last up to ten days. The investigators have already managed to identify the remains of the 298 victims.<br /><br />Though no cause has been established, Ukraine and Western countries accuse pro-Russian rebels of shooting down the plane with a Russian-made missile. <br /><br />Russian state media broadcast a satellite image showing what they claimed was proof MH17 was shot down by a Ukrainian fighter jet. <br /><br />Russia has released satellite images which it claims shows MH17 was shot down by a Ukrainian fighter jet. pic.twitter.com/PnhAyi44Nq— Izhar Mustaqin (@izharmustaqin) November 16, 2014<br /><br />The image, which was broadcast on Russian Channel One TV, was said to be from American whistleblower, George Bilt, a graduate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He claimed to be an air traffic controller with 20 years of experience.<br /><br />Commentators described it as a crude fake. Twitter users suggested various problems with the ‘photoshopped’ image.<br /><br />Also, the satellite map image put MH17 50km west of the crash site, oops pic.twitter.com/VxXnzUTUoR— Brown Moses (@Brown_Moses) November 14, 2014<br /><br />Looks like in this new MH17 satellite “evidence” the position of the Malaysia airlines logo is in the wrong place pic.twitter.com/evNY20AMvA— Brown Moses (@Brown_Moses) November 14, 2014
