This Article is From Jul 24, 2014

Plane With More MH17 Crash Victims Leaves Ukraine

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Coffins of the victims of Malaysia Airlines MH17 downed over rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine, are loaded into hearses on the tarmac during a national reception ceremony at Eindhoven airport July 23, 2014.

Kharkiv, Ukraine: A Dutch military aircraft carrying remains of victims of the Malaysian plane which was downed over eastern Ukraine has departed for the Netherlands.

All 298 people - most of them Dutch citizens - aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 were killed. Wreckage of the Boeing 777 fell on territory controlled by pro-Russian separatists, and U.S. officials say the plane was probably shot down by a missile, most likely by accident.

The Dutch military plane left the government-controlled city of Kharkiv on Thursday, one of the two planes tasked to bring dozens of coffins to the Netherlands.

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