
© Airbus DS/AllSource AnalysisA satellite image shows the primary crash site (left), of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 located near Hrabove, eastern Ukraine.
The first aerial pictures of the MH17 crash site have emerged, laying bare the breathtaking scale of the disaster that claimed the lives of 298 innocents.
The stills, taken from the skies over the village of Grabovo in eastern Ukraine, show the scorched earth at the point of impact and gives an idea of how much more severe the devastation could have been had it come down in the nearby family homes.
Grabovo is controlled by pro-Russian rebels, widely suspected of shooting the plane out of the sky on Thursday afternoon. The pictures emerged as the train carrying the bodies of all of the victims of Flight MH17 finally set off
after four days in situ.

© Airbus DS/AllSource AnalysisThis image shows just how close the crash site was to civilian homes in the twon of Grabove, Ukraine
It comes amid uproar over the treatment of the corpses, which have lain in the baking summer heat since Thursday.
Finally, after repeated calls from leaders to speed up the chaotic clean-up operation, officials at the site in eastern Ukraine have agreed to hand over the bodies to the Dutch at 7pm today.
The train pulled away from a station in Torez, nine miles from the rebel-held field where the Malaysia Airlines flight was shot down by a missile.
Today President Barack Obama rebuked Russian President Vladmir Putin today for not using his influence to stop Russian backed separatists in Ukraine from 'tampering' with evidence at the site of the MH17 crash.
Comment: Here's the part they're not showing you: Jewish Defense League (LDJ in French) picking fights with pro-Gaza demonstrators:
JDL is banned in Israel and listed as a terrorist organization in the US! But in France it effectively functions as an organ of state enforcement against dissent.