There they can see that the recovery operation is rudimentary at best and lacks even the most basic equipment.
"Do you have any refrigerated tents?" one monitor asks one of the salvage team standing among a crowd of armed men. The worker just shakes his head.
Nearby lie the scattered possessions of the victims: suitcases torn open, passports, books, children's toys.
Just an hour and a half later and the observers are already on their way back to base having once again been prevented from surveying the whole area and most importantly the main impact site.
"We had the possibility to speak to those in charge, the local residents and to those who are collecting the bodies," says Alexander Hug, the head of the delegation.
Shortly after the monitors leave two buses carrying some 50 people pull up to the scene. They are nurses from a local hospital and miners, dressed in their work clothes and covered in soot, who have come to help.