CNN CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow March 29, 2015 19:41:00
>> reporter: the issue right now is the closest any grieving relatives can get is a spot about 2 1/2 miles away as the crow flies from the actual crash site that is because the terrain is so rugged and so dangerous, trying to get there on foot or even closer evening the investigation teams have to be flown in by helicopter. ordered a backhoe into action to try and carve out a track into the hillside so that it will hold a twofold purpose. is so that recovery teams can recover plane fragments and human remains that much quicker and so that family members can get very much closer to the crash si...