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Australian True Crime

Shortcut: Investigating the Crime Scene of Flight MH17

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6979 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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The Australian Federal Police have released a short podcast series to mark the ten 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 ten member team of AFP officers who were among the first international investigators allowed to enter the site.


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


Officer Hilda Sirec, who is now Assistant Commissioner of the AFP, was part of that first small team and she joins us on Australian True Crime to talk about the mission.


Search Among The Sunflowers is available now, wherever you get your podcasts.


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CREDITS:

Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram 

Guest: AFP Assistant Commissioner, Hilda Sirec

Executive Producer/Editor: Matthew Tankard

This episode contains extra content from the ABC, CNN and TRT World.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.2

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0:08.4

Find the link in the show description or search atc. mail list.com.

0:15.0

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

0:21.0

anniversary of the Downing of Flight MH17 in Ukraine.

0:24.8

It's called Search Among the Sunflowers. The title reflects the surreal spectacle

0:30.4

that faced the 10-member team of AFP officers who were among the first international investigators

0:35.8

allowed to enter the site.

0:37.8

Enormous chunks of charred and smoking plain fuselage,

0:41.7

personal effects and human remains were scattered for miles among the

0:45.8

thousands of tall sunflowers growing naturally in the summer sun just east of

0:50.5

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

0:58.2

This is Australian true crime, produced with respect on Warajory Country of the Kulin Nation.

1:05.0

Officer Hilda Syrick, who is now assistant commissioner of the AFP,

1:09.0

was part of that first small team,

1:11.0

and she joins us on Australian True Crime to talk about the mission.

1:15.0

And a warning, this episode of the podcast contains graphic descriptions of violence.

1:39.0

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1:46.9

Yours, Toby.

1:48.7

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1:50.7

as British Airways holidays take your holiday, Atoll protected.

1:54.6

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