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Murder In The Sky: Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17

The Guardian: MH17 victims’ son says ending Ukraine conflict more important than blame

Published Sept. 28, 2016. Updated Sept. 28 at 11:53 am

Local villagers place pictures of the passengers of MH17 flight at a makeshift memorial in Petropavlivka village, Donetsk region, on the second anniversary of the tragedy on July 17, 2016. Dozens of local villagers gathered on July 17 in separatist eastern Ukraine at the crash site of the MH17 flight two years after the jet was hit by a missile killing 298 people. Some 60 local people carried flowers and lit the candles on the small square of the village of Petropavlivka where some of the remains and personal belongings of passengers on the Malaysia Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur fell to the ground. (AFP)

An Australian man who lost both his parents aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 believes ending the Ukraine conflict should be higher priority than placing blame over the downed airliner.

The Malaysia Airlines plane bound for Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam was shot down by a surface-to-air missile over eastern Ukraine in July 2014 with 298 people onboard.