181 bodies found from Malaysian plane crash, black boxes reportably found. -Yahoo/AP

Onlookers inspect debris. -Yahoo/AP

181 bodies have been recovered from the crash site of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17. Yahoo/AP Pro-Russian militia also claim to have recovered 8 out of the 12 black boxes from the wreck. The debris was spread over a large area. Several individuals who died were heading to an HIV/AIDS conference in Australasia. 

My Comment:

I am sure more bodies will be recovered as time goes on. The fact that many of these people were AIDS researchers is just more tragedy heaped on an already tragic event. Hopefully some kind of temporary truce can be called so the recovery effort and investigation can go on unhindered. I'm not holding my breath though, all three sides of this conflict benefit  from murky waters.

EDIT: CNN has an article about the passengers. Dutch Scientist Joep Lange and World Health Organization employee Glenneth Thomas were among the dead. Such a waste.