Sabrina Tavernise is a science reporter and former foreign correspondent. A Russian speaker, she was sent to cover the conflict in eastern Ukraine. She was one of the first journalists to arrive at the scene of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash. This week, she is back at home in Washington, D.C. New York Times asked her about the challenges of reporting on the crash.
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A picture taken on July 18, 2014 shows the wreckages of the Malaysia Airlines jet carrying 298 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur a day after it crashed, near the town of Shaktarsk, in rebel-held east Ukraine.
