The nine-mile debris field of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 is a horror show of carnage and disarray — part aviation tragedy, part literal war-zone, and entirely a lawless free-for-all, according to news and witness accounts.
A full day after the crash, arriving international investigators were being turned away, including 30 probers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, whose officials told the BBC of being rebuffed by “local illegal armed groups.”