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It was just devastating.

We came from memory around a corner and here's the main part of the crash site and there's fuselage and I'll remember there's

luggage there's children's toys just strewn for I don't, probably more than a kilometer and where we got out, that was one place

that we could go out and we're walking through and we're having a look and it's just very confronting.

You know you're there to do a job,

but it's one of those things and you're trying for it.

You know, I've been in the cops for 30 years at that point,

you're trained to do your job.

But you still remember just the sadness of what it was that you were walking through.

And at one point, I picked up some paperwork and by coincidence, it was the paperwork of one of the Australian families.

And again that's near some kid stuff toys and luggage and other things and it's just yeah it strikes you

just the horror to people on the plane must have gone through.

The Australian Federal Police have released a short podcast series to mark the 10-year anniversary of the

Downing of Flight MH17 in Ukraine. It's called Search Among the Sunflowers. The title reflects the surreal

spectacle that faced the 10-member team of AFP officers who were among the

first international investigators allowed to enter the site.

Enormous chunks of charred and smoking plain fuselage,

personal effects and human remains were scattered for miles among the thousands of tall sunflowers growing naturally in the summer sun just east of Danetsk.

All 298 people on board were killed, including 38 people who called Australia home.

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