On the ground, recovery experts began the grisly task of collecting remains of the 298 people killed two days earlier when a Malaysia Airlines jet exploded over the war zone of eastern Ukraine.
Across diplomatic channels, world leaders complained the recovery is not happening fast enough, mainly because pro-Russia militants control the crash site.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to use his influence to force the rebels to allow full access.
"I want to see results in the form of unimpeded access and rapid recovery," Rutte said in a press briefing. "This is now priority number one."
Nearly two-thirds of the people on the jetliner, which was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, were Dutch.
Saturday brought a shift from the initial shock over the air disaster to the painstaking forensic and diplomatic challenges of figuring out what happened and how much the tragedy will escalate the Ukrainian conflict.
Masked gunmen at crash site
At the crash site, armed gunmen -- some of them masked -- kept close watch over a team of observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe who gained access for a second day. Artillery fire reverberated in the distance.
Michael Bociurkiw, a spokesman for the OSCE group, told CNN that no security perimeter had been established and no one appeared to be in charge. While he said his monitors had better access than on Friday, observing about 75 body bags collected by civilian emergency workers, he described the situation as far from ideal for such a huge crime scene.
Meanwhile, international pressure increased on Russia to exert its influence over separatist rebels it supports who are fighting the Ukrainian government in the region.
...CNN
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