SEPANG: Malaysia is to leave it to the Dutch and Australian authorities to determine when personnel can be sent to eastern Ukraine to retrieve any more remains of the Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH17 tragedy, Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said today.
He said the decision was left to the two countries as their nationals comprised a large number of the passengers on board the ill-fated Boeing 777-200 aircraft which was shot down over Ukraine on July 17.
A total of 193 Dutch nationals and 38 Australian nationals were on board flight MH17.
Malaysia had 44 nationals on the flight, and the remains of …read more
Source: Free Malaysia Today
