Plane crash victims come home
Mourners watch from a bridge as a convoy of hearses carrying coffins containing the remains of victims of downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 drives from Eindhoven Air Base to Hilversum July 23, 2014.
A Dutch C-130 Hercules plane and an Australian Royal Australian Air Force C17 transport plane flew the first bodies of the 298 victims of the plane crash to the Netherlands almost a week after it was shot down over Ukraine.
Dutch pay respect to MH17 victims
Flowers are thrown as a convoy of hearses carrying coffins containing the remains of victims of downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 drives from Eindhoven Air Base to Hilversum July 23, 2014.
Dutch pay respect to MH17 victims
A convoy of hearses carrying coffins containing the remains of victims of downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 drives from Eindhoven Air Base to Hilversum July 23, 2014, after a ceremony following the arrival of a Dutch C-130 Hercules plane and an Australian Royal Australian Air Force C17 transport plane with the first bodies of the 298 victims of the plane crash in eastern Ukraine.
Dutch pay respect to MH17 victims
This aerial photo shows people watching from a bridge a convoy of hearses carrying coffins containing the remains of victims of downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 driving from Eindhoven Air Base to Hilversum July 23, 2014, after a ceremony following the arrival of a Dutch C-130 Hercules plane and an Australian Royal Australian Air Force C17 transport plane with the first bodies of the 298 victims of the plane crash in eastern Ukraine.
Dutch pay respect to MH17 victims
A black flag flies above the Royal Standard of the Netherlands above the Palace Noordeinde in The Hague, the Netherlands, July 23, 2014.
Dutch pay respect to MH17 victims
Volunteers pull on ropes to ring the Salvator Bell in the Dom tower in Utrecht during a national day of mourning for the victims of downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 July 23, 2014.
The bodies of the first victims from the Malaysian airliner shot down over Ukraine arrived back in the Netherlands amid dignified grief tinged with anger. Bells pealed and flags flew at half mast in memory of the 298 people killed when Flight 17 crashed in an area of eastern Ukraine held by Russian-backed separatists.
Dutch pay respect to MH17 victims
A coffin of one of the victims of Malaysia Airlines 17 downed over rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine is carried from an aircraft during a national reception ceremony at Eindhoven Air Base July 23, 2014.
Two aircraft carrying the remains of some of the 298 passengers who died on Flight 17 touched down at an airport in the Dutch city of Eindhoven as next-of-kin and Dutch and foreign officials looked on.
The Netherlands declared the day the country's first day of mourning in more than half a century.
Dutch pay respect to MH17 victims
King Willem Alexander, left, and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, second left, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, center, and officials attend a national reception ceremony at Eindhoven Air Base July 23, 2014, for the remains of the victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 downed over rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine.
Two aircraft carrying the remains of some of the 298 passengers who died on Flight 17 touched down at an airport in the Dutch city of Eindhoven as next-of-kin and Dutch and foreign officials looked on.
The Netherlands declared the day the country's first day of mourning in more than half a century.
Dutch pay respect to MH17 victims
Dutch military men carry coffins containing the remains of victims of downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 during a ceremony at Eindhoven Air Base July 23, 2014, after two aircraft carrying the coffins landed from Ukraine.
Dutch pay respect to MH17 victims
Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, Frans Timmermans, right, comforts a relative of a victim after the arrival of the plane carrying the bodies of the victims killed in the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 plane disaster, at Eindhoven Airport, July 23, 2014.
Dutch pay respect to MH17 victims
A convoy of hearses with the remains of the victims of downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 drives past international flags as it leaves Eindhoven Air Base to a military base in Hilversum, July 23, 2014.
The Netherlands declared the day the country's first day of mourning in more than half a century.
Dutch pay respect to MH17 victims
A KLM flight attendant pays her respects July 23, 2014, at Schiphol Airport during a national day of mourning for the victims killed in the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 plane disaster.
Dutch pay respect to MH17 victims
Flowers lay on the tarmac as a Hercules transport aircraft of the Royal Dutch Air Force, carrying bodies from downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, prepares to take off from the airport in Kharkiv, Ukraine, July 23, 2014.