Two military transport planes landed in Eindhoven in the south of the Netherlands on July 23, Associated Press reported.
The two aircraft with 56 bodies of Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 crash victims departed earlier from Kharkiv for Eindhoven.
A Dutch Hercules C-130 plane with the remains of 16 bodies left for
Eindhoven at around noon local time (1 pm GMT), and an hour later an
Australian C-17 Globemaster with 40 bodies on board followed it.
King of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Willem-Alexander, his wife
Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and
more than 100 relatives of the victims are to meet the planes at the
Eindhoven airbase upon arrival.
The bodies will be then transported to a military base in the city of
Hilversum in the north of the Netherlands. Dutch experts will begin to
the process of the identification of the remains there, according to
mass media reports.
As reported, a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777, en route from Amsterdam
to Kuala Lumpur, crashed near the village of Hrabove, Shakhtarsk
district, Donetsk region, on July 17. There were 283 passengers and 15
crewmembers on board the plane. All were killed.
According to the airlines, the victims list includes 192 Dutch
nationals, one of them being also a U.S. citizen, 44 Malaysian citizens,
among them 15 crewmembers, 27 Australians, 12 citizens of Indonesia,
ten Britons, one of them being also a South African, as well as four
Germans, four Belgians, three Filipinos, one Canadian, and one citizen
of New Zealand.
A total of 282 bodies and 87 fragments of 16 victims’ bodies were
found at the crash site as of July 21, when the search operation was
over. The Security Service of Ukraine opened a criminal proceeding under
Article “Terrorist Act.”
