The families of six crew members on a Malaysian passenger jet shot down over Ukraine nearly two years ago filed lawsuits against Malaysia Airlines on Thursday for negligence and breach of contract.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was hit by a surface-to-air missile on 17 July 2014, at the height of fighting in the Ukraine conflict.

Balan Nair Thamodaran, one of the lawyers working for the Thomas Philip law firm which is representing the families of the six flight MH17 crew, said he had been instructed by to take out a lawsuit against Malaysian Airlines Berhad (MAB), which Malaysian Airlines System (MAS) changed its name to after the crash.

The crew members are Nur Shazana Mohamed Salleh, Hamdazlin Sham Mohamed Arifin, Sanjid Singh, Mohd Ghafar Abu Bakar, Lee Hui Pin and Chong Yee Pheng.

The families of six crew members on a Malaysian passenger jet shot down over Ukraine nearly two years ago filed lawsuits against Malaysia Airlines on Thursday for negligence and breach of contract.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was hit by a surface-to-air missile on 17 July 2014, at the height of fighting in the Ukraine conflict.

Balan Nair Thamodaran, one of the lawyers working for the Thomas Philip law firm which is representing the families of the six flight MH17 crew, said he had been instructed by to take out a lawsuit against Malaysian Airlines Berhad (MAB), which Malaysian Airlines System (MAS) changed its name to after the crash.

The crew members are Nur Shazana Mohamed Salleh, Hamdazlin Sham Mohamed Arifin, Sanjid Singh, Mohd Ghafar Abu Bakar, Lee Hui Pin and Chong Yee Pheng.

Kuala Lumpur - 2 June 2016

1. Balan Nair Thamodaran, Lawyer representing the families of six flight MH17 crew talking with reporters

2. Local press

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Balan Nair Thamodaran, Lawyer representing the families of six flight MH17 crew:

"We have been instructed by the family members of the cabin crew of MH17, to file a lawsuit against MAS (Malaysia Airlines System) as well as MAB (Malaysia Airlines Berhad). We will be filling it shortly, we just arrived in court. That filing will take place shortly."

4. Lawyer walking to court office to file lawsuit

5. Reporters taking notes

6. Lawyer discussing with reportes

7. Local photographer

8. Camera viewfinder

9. Lawyer with reporters

10. SOUNDBITE (English) Balan Nair Thamodaran, Lawyer representing the families of six flight MH17 crew:

"We say that had they been more careful in choosing what path they want to take (Ukraine), they could have avoided this and that's the position that we're taking now. So the negligence is basically is not, I would say not, taking seriously the warnings that were given by the parties as to the possible trouble that they may face (above Ukraine). So that's what we were saying."

11. Exterior courthouse

12. Close of courthouse with sign reading (Malay) 'Kuala Lumpur Court Complex'

Malaysia is preparing to unveil the latest overhaul of its beleaguered state-owned airline, which is reeling from twin disasters months apart that killed hundreds of passengers.

Khazanah Nasional, the state investment company that owns 69 per cent of Malaysia Airlines, said in early August that it will announce details of the overhaul by the end of this month. Malaysian news reports said the announcement will come Friday.

Analysts expect Khazanah to slash jobs, drop money-losing routes to Europe and China, and replace top management.

Aviation analyst Mohshin Aziz said on Thursday that the company is on its "last legs" and that any attempt to cut routes to Europe and north Asia would mean a corresponding cut in staff as well.

A substantial revamp has long been likely for Malaysia Airlines, which was struggling with chronic financial problems even before it was hit by the double disasters this year.

Investigators continue to scour the southern Indian Ocean for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 which severed contact with air traffic controllers and apparently veered far of course while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on 8 March with 239 people on board.

In July, 298 people were killed when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was blasted out of the sky as it flew over an area of eastern Ukraine controlled by pro-Russian separatists.

AP TELEVISION

27 August 2014

1. Row of Malaysia Airlines parked at terminal

2. Ground crew at airplane nose

3. Malaysia Airlines logo on airplane

4. Malaysia Airlines plane being towed along runway

28 August 2014

5. Aviation analyst Mohshin Aziz at desk

6. Aziz typing

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohshin Aziz, Associate Director of research, equity markets at Maybank Investment Bank:

"It couldn't get any worse for Malaysia Airlines, basically at the last legs of survival, cash is running thin and losses that are coming out on a day-to-day basis is basically cutting its survival day-by-day."

27 August 2014

8. Malaysia Airlines sign at check in

9. Various of Malaysia Airlines check in counters

10. Empty check-in counter

11. Closed sign at check-in counter

12. Passengers queueing at check-in counter

28 August 2014

13. Aziz working with staff member

14. SOUNDBYTE (English) Mohshin Aziz, Associate Director of research, equity markets at Maybank Investment Bank:

"If they were to cut all of the European and north Asian routes, we're probably talking about easily one third of its entire network being clipped. And by that measure, a simplistic correlation, they probably have to get rid of one third of their workforce as well."

27 August 2014

15. Airport sign reading (English): "International Departures"

16. Various of Malaysia Airlines cabin crew walking through airport

Malaysia will leave "no stones unturned" in its quest for justice in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, the nation's defence minister said on Friday.

Hishammuddin Hussein was addressing journalists at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang after returning from Ukraine.

Flight MH17 went down on July 17 over Ukrainian territory held by pro-Russian rebels, killing all 298 passengers and crew on board.

Hishammudin Hussein, who also visited Russia and the Netherlands during the trip, said that Russia had said they will continue working with Malaysian authorities and had given a commitment that "they too want to find the truth".

He stressed Malaysia's own commitment to bringing back the remains of passengers of the plane that were still in the region

Meanwhile on Friday, the chief Dutch prosecutor overseeing the criminal investigation into the downing of the jet said the possibility that Flight 17 was shot down from the ground is the "most likely" scenario.

A separate Dutch air crash investigation concluded this week that the plane was hit from the outside by numerous high-energy objects, but stopped short of calling it a missile strike.

AP TELEVISION

1. Wide of Malaysian Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein arriving at news conference, zoom in

2. Mid of photographers

3. Wide of news conference

4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Hishammuddin Hussein, Malaysian Defence Minister:

"I must say that the Russians have indicated to me that they are working closely with us and they will continue to do that. They've given us, given me a commitment that they too want to find the truth."

5. Mid of reporters writing

6. Mid of cameramen

7. Pan from media to Hussein

8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Hishammuddin Hussein, Malaysian Defence Minister:

"No stones unturned when it comes to finding justice for MH17, to bring back the remains of the remaining passengers that are still there, not only from Malaysia but from the other nations also."

9. Mid of reporters writing

10. Close of cameraman

11. Mid of reporter

12. Hishammuddin Hussein exiting

Russia's Ambassador to Malaysia said on Tuesday that experts had confirmed that the black boxes of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 that crashed in eastern Ukraine "were not tampered with."

Lyudmila Vorobyeva said that Russia was not playing "the blame game," as claimed by some Western countries.

On Monday pro-Moscow separatists released a train packed with bodies of the plane crash victims and handed over the black boxes from the downed Malaysia Airlines plane, four days after it got shot down.

With body parts decaying in sweltering heat and signs that evidence at the crash site was mishandled, anger in Western capitals has mounted at the rebels and their allies in Moscow.

The bodies of the 298 victims, most from the Netherlands, have become a part of the conflict in Ukraine because they could hold evidence of what brought the plane down on July 17 as it was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.

AP TELEVISION

1. Car driving into Russian Embassy in Malaysia

2. Sign of Russian Embassy

3. Russian Ambassador to Malaysia sitting at press conference

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Lyudmila Vorobyeva, Russian Ambassador to Malaysia:

"The black boxes have been handed over to Malaysian experts and Malaysian experts have certified that they were not tampered with. That are the words by Malaysian experts."

5. Cutaway of Vorobyeva speaking

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Lyudmila Vorobyeva, Russian Ambassador to Malaysia:

"The rebels do not possess any defence systems that are capable of shooting a plane at the altitude of ten kilometres.They do not have this kind of systems. Russia has never supplied this kind of system."

7. Cutaway of media

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Lyudmila Vorobyeva, Russian Ambassador to Malaysia:

"In Russia, we are not playing these games that are our Western counterparts is engaging very much into - blaming someone and accusing some parties without any evidence. We are not doing that. We are calling for thorough investigation that could produce evidence of who is responsible for this tragedy."

9. Media filming

10. Vorobyeva leaving

11. Various of woman holding banner reading (English): "Justice for MH 17" in front of Russian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur

13. Security in front of embassy

Malaysia Airlines will cut 6,000 workers as part of a 1.9 billion US dollar overhaul to revive its damaged brand after being hit by double passenger jet disasters.

The staff reduction announced on Friday represents about 30 percent of its current workforce of 20,000.

Khazanah Nasional, the state investment company that owns 69 percent of the airline, said the overhaul includes the establishment of a new company that will take over the existing Malaysia Airline business and its reduced staff.

Analysts say the substantial staff cuts suggest the airline will reduce flights to Europe and China.

The airline will be removed from the Malaysian stock exchange and taken completely under the wing of the government.

Khazanah, which previously announced that it plans to take 100 percent ownership, aims to restore Malaysia Airlines to profitability by the end of 2017 and then relist its shares on the stock exchange by the end of 2019.

A substantial revamp has long been on the cards for Malaysia Airlines, which was struggling with chronic financial problems even before it was hit by the double disasters this year.

Investigators continue to scour the southern Indian Ocean for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 which veered far of course while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8 with 239 people on board.

In July, 298 people were killed when Flight 17 was blasted out of the sky as it flew over an area of eastern Ukraine controlled by pro-Russian separatists.

The tragedies have scarred the airline's brand, once associated with high-quality service, though there are no plans to change its name.

The airline says passengers fell 11 percent in July from the year before.

In releasing its latest quarterly financial result, a loss, on Thursday, Malaysia Airlines said the worst financial impact from the disasters will come in the second half of this year.

Khazanah has begun a search for a new chief executive for the airline, which is likely to be completed by the end of this year.

Current CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya will continue to head Malaysia Airlines until its new incarnation is established in July next year.

AP TELEVISION

August 27, 2014

1. Various of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) plane

August 29, 2014

2. Azman Mokhtar, Managing Director of Khazanah Nasional (state investment company that owns 69 percent of Malaysia Airlines), arriving for news conference

3. Cameramen

4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Azman Mokhtar, Managing Director, Khazanah Nasional:

"I would like to announce the 12-point enabling plan for Malaysian Airlines System Berhad, MAS, to sustain a recovery to profitability and revive our, Malaysia's, national flag carrier."

5. Pan from cameramen to news conference

6. Mid of news conference

7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Azman Mokhtar, Managing Director, Khazanah Nasional:

"I think ironically and sadly, the events, the recent tragic events, as well as the ongoing difficulties at MAS, have actually created a perfect storm that is allowing this restructuring to take place."

8. Wide of news conference

9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Azman Mokhtar, Managing Director, Khazanah Nasional:

"It is a critical requirement that NewCo starts on a right footing in terms of its staff size and work practices. The estimation of a workforce of approximately 14-thousand represents a net reduction of six-thousand staff, or a net reduction of 30 percent from the approximately 20-thousand current staff in OldCo."

10. Khazanah logo

11. Mokhtar at end of news conference

The Malaysian Transport Minister said on Tuesday that a preliminary report into the MH17 crash confirmed that the aircraft was in an "airworthy condition."

Liow Tiong Lai was speaking at a news conference following the release of a report on the aviation disaster by the Dutch Safety Board.

Liow also said that Malaysia would pursue whoever caused the crash and would bring them to justice.

The preliminary report concluded that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was likely struck by multiple "high-energy objects from outside the aircraft," causing it to break up over eastern Ukraine.

The report stopped short of saying the Boeing 777 was shot down by a missile, but its findings appear to point to that conclusion.

MH17 suddenly plunged out of the sky on July 17 over territory held by pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine, killing all 298 passengers and crew on board.

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AP TELEVISION

1. Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai arriving at news conference

2. Liow and other officials standing at podium

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Liow Tiong Lai, Malaysian Transport Minister:

"The investigations confirm that the MAS (Malaysia Airlines) crew were qualified to conduct the flight and that the aircraft was in airworthy condition."

4. Pan of Liow at news conference

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Liow Tiong Lai, Malaysian Transport Minister:

"Somebody has to be responsible for this accident, somebody should have press the button to shoot down the plane. We would like to find out who is the person."

6. Two reporters at news conference

7. Liow and other officials at podium

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Liow Tiong Lai, Malaysian Transport Minister:

"So once we can determine the culprits then we will definitely demand justice and we will bring them to the arbitration or to the court. It can be international court or it can be Malaysian court."

9. Liow holding up copy of preliminary report into MH17 crash

10. Wide of Liow speaking at news conference

11. Three reporters on mobile phones

12. Liow leaving the news conference

Uncertainty and agonising waiting are still woven into the fabric of life for many relatives of the victims of last year's Malaysia Airlines crash in eastern Ukraine, a year after the incident.

The families of the 298 people killed when MH 17 was brought down on July 17, 2014 are still awaiting conclusive answers to their questions about the crash: Who brought down the plane? Will the perpetrators ever face justice? Why was the Boeing 777 flying over a war zone where just three days earlier an Antonov-24 military transport plane was blown out of the sky?

In Malaysia, family members of Dora Shahila Kassim are still coming to grips with the tragic event.

Dora was the Chief stewardess on board the flight.

For her mother, Hasnah Mohammad Yusof, moving forward has been very difficult.

"Its bad for me to think that way (that Dora is still alive), isn't it? But I just can't help it because there was no real farewell for her from me and I couldn't hug her for the last time," she says, fighting back tears.

Dora, a single mother, also left behind a teenage daughter, Nur Diyana Yazeera, who is 16 years old and currently studying at a boarding school.

Diyana hugs a pillow and sobs as she recalls growing up with her divorcee mother.

"I grew up without a dad and my mom was my dad as well. she was my best friend. I was close to her, now that she's not with me, its hard to cope with that," says the teen.

The Malaysian government held a remembrance ceremony in tribute to the crash victims last Saturday at Kuala Lumpur airport, which was attended by the families.

The families of the victims will also gather on Friday in the Netherlands.

Among them will be relatives of Dora, who will fly in from Kuala Lumpur.

A Dutch-led criminal investigation into the crash is expected to be completed by the end of the year.

Kuala Lumpur - 4 July 2015

1. Nametag of Malaysia Airlines flight attendant Dora Shahila Kassim

2. Set up shot of Hasnah Mohammad Yusof, Dora's mother

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Hasnah Mohammad Yusof, 72, Dora's mother:

"I don't feel like she (Dora) is no longer, you know...I'm just...every morning I was hoping that she will be at the gate there."

4. Framed certificate on shelf

5. Dora's name on certificate

6. Cutaway of Dora's mother

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Hasnah Mohammad Yusof, 72, Dora's mother:

"Its bad for me to think that way (that Dora is still alive), isn't it? But I just can't help it because there was no real farewell for her from me and I couldn't hug her for the last time and I couldn't see her for the last time also."

8. Various of Dora's daughter, Nur Diyana

9. Dora's nametag

10. Nur Diyana on her mother's bed

11. SOUNDBITE (English) Nur Diyana Yazeera, 16, Dora's daughter

"I grew up without a dad and my mom was my dad as well. she was my best friend. I was close to her, now that she's not with me, it's hard to cope with that."

12. Family photos

13. Close of family photo showing Dora with Nur Diyana as a toddler

14. Various of family photo showing Dora, her daughter and relatives

15. Dora's last photo with her daughter Nur Diyana

16. SOUNDBITE (English) Nur Diyana Yazeera, 16, Dora's daughter:

"Personally for me, I haven't had any closure because I haven't had a proper goodbye and I haven't seen her body and I didn't get to see her before she was buried so I think no closure for me."

17. Various of bag with Dora's picture inside

Kuala Lumpur International Airport - 11 July 2015

18. Screen at the airport, reading (Malay) "MH17 Tragedy Remembrance Ceremony, 11th July 2015 Bunga Raya Complex KLIA"

19. From left: Dora's sister Darlina Kwan, Nur Diyana and Dora's mother Hasnah

20. Wide of stage, flags of various countries being held by troops

21. Officials arriving with Dora's family in background

22. Nur Diyana laying her head on Darlina's shoulder

The new CEO of Malaysia Airlines said on Monday that the company is "technically bankrupt" but can remerge as Southeast Asia's leading airline.

Christoph Mueller told reporters in Kuala Lumpur that the ailing carrier could break even by 2018 after cutting staff, selling surplus aircraft and refurbishing its international fleet.

The airline is trying to sell two of its A380 super jumbo jets and has gone ahead with its previously announced plan to cut 6,000 of its 20,000 staff, according to the former chief executive of Ireland's Aer Lingus.

The remaining 14,000 employees have been offered jobs in a new company that is being set up to take over the legacy Malaysia Airlines business.

The carrier is being kept alive by an injection of funds from a Malaysian government sovereign wealth fund after double disasters in 2014 dealt a fatal blow to its already struggling business.

The Malaysian parliament passed a law allowing the airline to be restructured under Chapter 11-style bankruptcy protection.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 with 239 people on board went missing March 8 last year while en route to Beijing and no trace of it has been found.

In July, a Malaysia Airlines jet was shot down over Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board.

Kuala Lumpur - 1 June 2015

1. CEO Malaysia Airlines Christoph Mueller talking with reporters

2. Various of media

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Christoph Mueller, CEO Malaysia Airlines:

"We are technically bankrupt, we are technically bankrupt and that decline of performance has started long before the tragic events of 2014. So that the current shareholder, only shareholder at the time, majority shareholder Khazanah, initiated already a first restructuring project as early as January of last year, that off course was overtaken by the tragic events and after that the entire debate of course became more public."

4. Cutaway of cameraman

5. Mueller at news conference

6. Cutaway of reporter

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Christoph Mueller, CEO Malaysia Airlines:

"It was decided that not the government should own the company outright but Khazanah, its foreign investment arm. Today, the new Malaysian Airlines has undertaken the first last transaction. We offered not less than 14 thousand employees a new contract today. It might not look like the start up but in fact we will be the start-up. It will be the new legal entity, new shareholder, new strategy in large parts new management. Everything will be in fact new."

8. Cutaway of cameraman

9. Mueller at news conference

Malaysian Airline officials led prayers on Tuesday for the victims of the twin tragedies involving flights MH370 and MH17.

The ceremony was held near the company's training centre in Petaling Jaya.

The session was attended by airline staff and officials, including the Malaysian Airlines Chief Executive, Ahmad Jauhari.

According to the airline's head of Strategic Communications Najmuddin Abdullah, staff have shown a great deal of resilience following the two disasters.

He told AP Television "we are always ready to lend any form of support towards each other."

Flight MH370 vanished on 8 March while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.

Despite a multinational search effort, the whereabouts of Flight MH370 are still a mystery.

Flight MH17 was shot down on July 17 over an area of Ukraine controlled by pro-Russia separatists on a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, killing all 298 people onboard.

An international investigation is ongoing, but no one has been arrested.

AP TELEVISION

1. Pan down from ceiling to men standing

2. Malaysian Airways Chief Executive Ahmad Jauhari Yahya at prayers (centre, black hair, white shirt)

3. Man praying

4. Pan from photographer to men praying

5. Jauhari Yahya at prayers

6. Man praying

7. Jauhari Yahya praying

8. Men praying

9. Prayer book

10. SOUNDBITE: (Malay) Najmuddin Abdullah, Senior Vice-President, Head of Strategic Communications:

"Generally the MAS family has shown a great deal of family spirit. We are always ready to lend any form of support towards each other. As I have said it is something that's really remarkable."

11. Jauhari Yahya in group prayer

12. Man praying

13. Men praying

14. Jauhari Yahya with group praying

15. Pan from cameraman to men praying

A memorial service was held at a central Kuala Lumpur university on Monday for one of the victims of the Malaysian Airlines disaster.

Friends and teachers gathered at the Taylor's University campus mosque to mourn and pray for Muhammad Afif and five other members of his family who were killed when their Boeing 777 was downed over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 passengers and crew.

Afif had just completed his Foundation course in Natural and Built Environments and had been on a month-long vacation to Europe with his family.

His flight home was the ill-fated MH17.

Khairil Azwan Bin Ighwan Salim was a former housemate of Afif.

He told AP Television that a week before Afif's departure for Europe, he had seen a few signs that made it appear Afif knew he would never return.

"I remember that one thing he say 'it's okay Khairil if you, if we don't see again after this, we can see in the hereafter'," he said.

Close friend Nadine Nasharuddin recalled her memories of Afif and told journalists how he had been a "funny, caring and kind-spirited person."

AP TELEVISION

1. Staff and students praying in mosque on campus during memorial service for Muhammad Afif, one of the victims of plane crash

2. Various people praying

3. Mosque exterior

4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Khairil Azwan Bin Ighwan Salim, Housemate:

"We hug and then we forgive each other. And then I guess I remember that one thing he say 'it's okay Khairil if you, if we don't see again after this, we can see in the hereafter'."

5. Friends talking

6. Women reciting passage

7. Close of script

8. Women reciting passage

9. SOUNDBITE(English) Nadine Nasharuddin, Close friend:

"He is a person who lifts up your spirit when you are down. He will make jokes so you will be happy. So that is how I remember him as the funniest person I have ever met. He is really kind. He would help you in any way."

10. Nadine and other friends of Muhammad Afif talking

11. Image of Muhammad Afif seen on Nasharuddin's phone

12. Journalists talking to Nasharuddin

13. Wide of mosque

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A train carrying wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 departed to Kharkiv on Sunday, four months after the plane was brought down in eastern Ukraine.

Sunday's operation in Pelahiivka was being carried out under the supervision of Dutch investigators and officials from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

The investigation into the cause of the crash is being conducted in the government-controlled northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv and in the Netherlands.

All 298 people aboard the Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur were killed when it was shot down on July 17 over a rebel-held area of Ukraine. The ultimate cause of the MH17 disaster is the subject of major diplomatic disputes.

Ukraine and Western government say Pro-Russia backed separatist fighters fired the rockets that felled the plane, while state-run television in Moscow has touted evidence it claims places blame with Ukraine's air force.

AP TELEVISION

Pelahiivka, Ukraine - November 23, 2014

1. Train carrying debris from the downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17

2. Close of sealed lock on train

3. Various of train leaving station

4. Various of Dutch MH17 Recovery Police cars departing

5. Train station

6. Train station attendant

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The parents of a woman who died on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 travelled from Perth, Australia to honour their daughter at the crash site in eastern Ukraine.

George "Jerzy" Dyczynski and Angela Rudhart-Dyczynski, parents of 25-year-old Fatima, crossed territory held by pro-Russian rebels to reach the wreckage-strewn farm fields outside the village of Hrabove.

They last spoke to Fatima shortly before she boarded the flight for Kuala Lumpur in Amsterdam on July 17.

"We have promised our daughter we will come here," Rudhart-Dyczynski said.

Her husband added that his daughter "was for peace, she is for peace and she will be forever for peace."

US and Ukrainian officials say the plane was shot down by a missile from rebel territory, likely by mistake. 298 people died.

AP TELEVISION

Hrabove, Ukraine - July 26, 2014

1. Wide of plane debris, pan up to George Dyczynski and Angela Rudhat-Dyczynski walking through crash site

2. SOUNDBITE (English) George "Jerzy" Dyczynski, father of MH17 victim Fatima Dyczynski:

"We are for peace. She (Fatima) was for peace, she is for peace and she will be forever for peace."

3. Close of Fatima on George's t-shirt

4. Close of parents feet walking through site, pan up to parents walking

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Angela Rudhart-Dyczynski, mother of MH17 victim Fatima Dyczynski:

"We cried a lot and that's why we promised her, the first thing when we heard that, how we should (could have) survived this? We said how do we survive this? He said: 'How should we survive this?' Then we said: 'No, no, we have to look what our DNA's now doing'."

6. Mid of parents walking through site

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Angela Rudhart-Dyczynski, mother of MH17 victim Fatima Dyczynski:

"We have promised our daughter we will come here. But, it actually, as soon as possible. There was a time factor, yeah? We should have come here the minute it happened. The next day, but..."

8. Various of parents looking at wing of plane at crash site

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Around a dozen people in Kuala Lumpur held a small candlelight vigil on Friday for the passengers on board a Malaysian jetliner that was shot down over eastern Ukraine.

Candles arranged on the floor of a church in the centre of the Malaysian capital spelt out "MH17" in tribute to Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, as people quietly prayed for the 298 people who died in the crash.

Just four months earlier, a Malaysia Airlines plane (flight MH370) carrying 239 people disappeared after taking off from Kuala Lumpur.

While over the sea east of Malaysia, the plane made a sharp turn, crossed the Malaysian Peninsula and turned south over the Indian Ocean.

In late June, Australian officials said investigators believe MH370 flew on autopilot for hours before running out of fuel and crashing at sea.

AP TELEVISION

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1. People praying at church candlelight vigil

2. Screen reading (English): "Pray for MH17"

3. People praying

4. Low angle of candles arranged on floor with people praying in background

5. Focus pull of candle arrangement reading (English): "MH17"

6. Church altar and screen in background

7. Newspaper cutting left at bottom of altar reading (English): "MH17 down"

8. Closes of hands clasped in prayer

9. Various of people praying

10. Focus pull of candles

11. Candle arrangement reading (English): "MH17"

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman on Friday updated reporters on the latest on repatriating the bodies of those killed in the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 incident.

"All four refrigerators with bodies of innocent victims have been unloaded. And information from 6pm (3pm GMT) is that experts already processed 378 packages with remains of innocent victims," he said.

"The team has prepared 227 special coffins to transport bodies to the Netherlands for identification. 180 coffins have been already sent, others will be sent tomorrow morning," he added.

Meanwhile in Kuala Lumpur, hundreds of people, including flight attendants and families of the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines jet, joined a multi-faith prayer service.

Two more planes departed Kharkiv airport on Friday with a further 74 coffins containing bodies and remains from the crash.

All 298 people aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 - most of them Dutch citizens - were killed when the plane went down on 17 July.

AP TELEVISION

Kiev, Ukraine

1. Deputy Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman speaking at news conference

2. Cutaway of journalists

3. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Groysman, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine:

"All four refrigerators with bodies of innocent victims have been unloaded. And information from 6 p.m. (1500 GMT) is that experts already processed 378 packages containing remains of innocent victims."

4. Groysman speaking at news conference

5. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Groysman, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine:

"At this time the team has prepared 227 special coffins to transport bodies to the Netherlands for identification. 180 coffins have been already sent, others will be sent tomorrow morning."

6. Cutaway of cameramen

7. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Groysman, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine:

"Today an important issue is to ratify the signed agreement (between Ukraine and the Netherlands about leading cooperation in the investigation). Then the international police mission can be involved and provide a security for experts who will work on the crash site. Today we concentrated on this."

8. Cutaway of journalists typing

9. Cameraman

10. Groysman speaking at news conference

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

11. Audience and speaker at multi-faith prayer service held by Malaysia Airlines

12. Speaker on stage at multi-faith service

13. Malaysia Airlines flight attendants crying

14. People crying at multi-faith service

15. Screen reading (English) "In memory of MH17 and remembering MH 370"

16. Various of Taoist priests holding Taoist prayer session

17. Malaysia Airlines flight attendants hugging each other

18. SOUNDBITE (English), Shanti (no last name given), a flight attendant at Malaysia Airlines:

"There is no words can express what I am feeling inside towards the families. It's not easy to.... I just want to say so sorry for the loss of their loved ones and I pray that they have peace."

19. People who attended the service talking

20. SOUNDBITE (English), (no name given) whose nephew was on board of the missing MH370:

"How would you feel if your family was on board? That's the same feeling. But we have to pray harder to try better. We are all praying for Malaysia, Malaysia Airlines and everybody in Malaysia, and for all the countries as well."

21. Various of people crying and hugging after the multi faith prayer service

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The remains of the victims of the Malaysia Airlines crash arrived in territory held by the Ukrainian government on Tuesday on their way to the Netherlands.

After a 17-hour journey from the town of Torez in rebel territory, the train carrying the bodies pulled into a station in Kharkiv, a government-controlled city where Ukrainian authorities have set up their crash investigation center.

This, after delays and haphazard treatment of the bodies that put pressure on European foreign ministers meeting in Brussels to impose tougher economic sanctions on Russia.

The crash site itself, in farmland held by the pro-Russian separatists whom the West accuses of shooting down the plane, remained unsecured five days after the disaster _ another source of frustration for officials around the world eager to establish the facts of the case.

The train gave a low-pitched blast from its horn as the grey corrugated refrigerator cars slowly rolled through weed-choked tracks onto the grounds of a factory where the bodies were being received.

Government spokesman Oleksander Kharchenko said Ukraine "will do our best" to send the bodies to the Netherlands on Tuesday.

Of the 298 people who died aboard the Amsterdam-to-Kuala Lumpur flight, 193 were Dutch citizens.

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Kharkiv, Ukraine 22 July 2014

1. Wide view of train leaving switch yard

2. Various of train entering Kharkiv rail yard

3. Various of train traveling down tracks

Dutch prosecutors said on Tuesday that the findings of the investigation by the Dutch Safety Board on the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 supported conclusions reached by a separate criminal probe.

The Netherlands has headed the investigation into the disaster because 196 victims on the flight were Dutch, and Ukraine agreed to let the Netherlands take the lead role.

Fred Westerbeke, the Dutch prosecutor leading the investigation, said he was satisfied that other scenarios regarding what happened to the plane "can be ruled out convincingly."

He said the criminal investigation had identified and was gathering information from "persons of interest", but that there was no immediate prospect of arrests being made.

"We have a lot of bricks but we still need a lot of cement between those bricks," he told reporters at a news conference in Rotterdam.

Dutch prosecutors said on Tuesday that the findings of the investigation by the Dutch Safety Board on the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 supported conclusions reached by a separate criminal probe.

The Netherlands has headed the investigation into the disaster because 196 victims on the flight were Dutch, and Ukraine agreed to let the Netherlands take the lead role.

Fred Westerbeke, the Dutch prosecutor leading the investigation, said he was satisfied that other scenarios regarding what happened to the plane "can be ruled out convincingly."

He said the criminal investigation had identified and was gathering information from "persons of interest", but that there was no immediate prospect of arrests being made.

"We have a lot of bricks but we still need a lot of cement between those bricks," he told reporters at a news conference in Rotterdam.

Rotterdam - 13 October 2015

1. Pan from waterside to offices of the Dutch Public Prosecution Service

2. Plaque outside office of Dutch Public Prosecution Service

3. Fred Westerbeke, chief public prosecutor of the Netherlands and chief investigator of the team investigating the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 disaster, at news conference

4. Cutaway photographer

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Fred Westerbeke, chief public prosecutor of the Netherlands and chief investigator of the team investigating the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 disaster:

"The Dutch Safety Board has concluded that Flight MH17 was shot down with a Buk missile system. Up to the present, the findings of the criminal investigation point in the same direction. The JIT (Joint Investigation Team) had already announced that in the criminal investigation the most likely scenario is that MH17 was shot down by a Buk. In order to obtain conclusive preliminary evidence it's also necessary that other scenarios such as the possibility that MH17 was shot down by another type of missile or it was shot down from the air can be ruled out convincingly."

6. Various of reporter taking notes

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Fred Westerbeke, chief public prosecutor of the Netherlands and chief investigator of the team investigating the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 disaster:

"We already have quite a lot of persons of interest in (from) which we are gathering information and evidence but still, we have a lot of bricks but we still need a lot of cement between those bricks. So there is still quite some work to do and it is not that we are now at the point that within a week or two weeks, arrests can be made - we are not that far yet."

8. Cutaway media

9. Westerbeke leaving news conference

The remains of two more Malaysian victims of the ill-fated Flight MH17 that crashed in eastern Ukraine in July, were brought back for burial to Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday.

The bodies of Lee Jian Han and Tambi Jiee arrived on board a special Malaysia Airlines aircraft at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

Families of the victims, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and other ministers came to the airport, where a special ceremony in honour of the two victims was held and during which a one-minute silence was observed.

There were 43 Malaysians on board MH17, the remains of 34 - 20 passengers and 14 crew members have been identified - with nine more still pending identification.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was on its way from Amsterdam to Kula Lumpur, when it was shot down on 17 July over easter Ukraine, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board.

An international investigation is ongoing, but no one has been arrested.

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1. Aircraft carrying bodies of two more victims of MH17 plane crash taxiing at airport

2. Photographers taking photos

3. Front of plane taxiing

4. Malaysian officers attending ceremony

5. Plane on tarmac

6. Two honour guards standing on tarmac

7. Body being unloaded

8. Two vans arriving to collect bodies

9. Honour guard carrying coffin

10. Relatives of victims crying

11. Honour guard carrying coffin

12. Relatives of victims at ceremony

13. Honour guard carrying coffin

14. Cameramen filming

15. Relatives praying and crying

16. Vans leaving

17. People at ceremony

18. Van driving by crowd

As the Dutch Safety Board prepared to publish its final report into what caused Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 to break up high over Eastern Ukraine last year, residents of the village near the site of the crash expressed concerns over how long the investigation has taken.

Some people asked why it had taken so long to remove debris from the site, including large pieces of the plane's fuselage.

Aviation experts said at the time that the site was compromised since investigators had no access to it during the first few days after the crash.

First, rebel commanders blocked OSCE observers from reaching the area, then clashes along the route to the site made it unsafe to travel there.

A preliminary report issued last year said the Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur likely was hit by multiple "high-energy objects from outside the aircraft," fuelling widespread speculation that it was downed by a surface-to-air missile, likely a Russian SA-11 system known as a Buk.

Western authorities have pointed blame at Russian-backed separatist rebels who were fighting Ukrainian government forces in the area where wreckage plunged to earth on July 17, 2014, killing all 298 people on board.

Russia has denied that and blamed the Ukrainian forces, who also denied downing the plane.

Countries whose citizens were killed, including the Netherlands, Malaysia and Australia, want to set up an international tribunal to prosecute any suspects. Russia vetoed the move earlier this year at the United Nations Security Council.

Ukraine's foreign minister said in July that a fresh attempt would likely be made to establish a tribunal once the final report is published.

As the Dutch Safety Board prepared to publish its final report into what caused Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 to break up high over Eastern Ukraine last year, residents of the village near the site of the crash expressed concerns over how long the investigation has taken.

Some people asked why it had taken so long to remove debris from the site, including large pieces of the plane's fuselage.

Aviation experts said at the time that the site was compromised since investigators had no access to it during the first few days after the crash.

First, rebel commanders blocked OSCE observers from reaching the area, then clashes along the route to the site made it unsafe to travel there.

A preliminary report issued last year said the Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur likely was hit by multiple "high-energy objects from outside the aircraft," fuelling widespread speculation that it was downed by a surface-to-air missile, likely a Russian SA-11 system known as a Buk.

Western authorities have pointed blame at Russian-backed separatist rebels who were fighting Ukrainian government forces in the area where wreckage plunged to earth on July 17, 2014, killing all 298 people on board.

Russia has denied that and blamed the Ukrainian forces, who also denied downing the plane.

Countries whose citizens were killed, including the Netherlands, Malaysia and Australia, want to set up an international tribunal to prosecute any suspects. Russia vetoed the move earlier this year at the United Nations Security Council.

Ukraine's foreign minister said in July that a fresh attempt would likely be made to establish a tribunal once the final report is published.

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Hrabove, Eastern Ukraine - 11 October 2015

1. Close of photo of male victim of crash hanging on cross placed near the MH17 crash site

2. Truck drives past

3. Close of another photo of male victim of crash

4. Wreath of flowers placed on cross, falling over in the wind

5. Piece of debris from crash site

6. Small pieces of debris on ground near crash site

7. Various of women cutting dry grass near the church in Hrabove village

8. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Natalia Gordeenkova, Hrabove resident:

"(When another plane crashed) the investigation was much faster. In a week they were already telling everyone the reason, everything was explained. Here they have doing it for one year already, why is there still no conclusion, why they didn't collect everything which remained? There was so many pieces, and they were lying there for so long, people still keep bringing them. However they organised a search and my son, who works at local mine was helping to search - they organised search brigades but.."

9. Cutaway women walking along street

10. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Natalia Gordeenkova, Hrabove resident:

"I understand, one can't collect everything at once, but they even didn't take huge pieces for long time, personal stuff too, nobody took anything. That's why there will be no justice. If they needed justice, they would organise. Was it too scary? We live here too. These are their people, their country. It appears that nobody cares. Because they've already decided for themselves who is guilty in first days that "Russia is to blame, and the rebels are all guilty."

11. Local women walk by the church

12. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Raisa Andreevna, Hrabove resident:

"Somebody is to blame. There should be someone to blame. Planes don't fall from the sky on their own."

13. Raisa Andreevna walks away

14. Wide of monument at crash site

15. Memorial plaque near crash site reading "In memory of 298 people, innocent victims of civil war"

16. Various of toys left near monument

17. Wide of area near crash site

Families of people killed in the downing last year of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 are gathering in The Hague to be briefed on the outcome of a 15-month investigation into the cause of the disaster in eastern Ukraine.

Barry Sweeney, whose son Liam was one of the 298 passengers and crew who died when the Boeing 777 broke up in midair and plunged to the ground, said he expected the Dutch-led investigation's final report to confirm the widely held suspicion that the plane was shot down.

Sweeney, from England, also hoped to find out more about the circumstances of his son's death.

The full report is being published later Tuesday.

Families of people killed in the downing last year of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 are gathering in The Hague to be briefed on the outcome of a 15-month investigation into the cause of the disaster in eastern Ukraine.

Barry Sweeney, whose son Liam was one of the 298 passengers and crew who died when the Boeing 777 broke up in midair and plunged to the ground, said he expected the Dutch-led investigation's final report to confirm the widely held suspicion that the plane was shot down.

Sweeney, from England, also hoped to find out more about the circumstances of his son's death.

The full report is being published later Tuesday.

The Hague, Netherlands - 13 October 2015

1. Families arriving to hear the report on flight MH17

2. Mid of families walking into building

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Barry Sweeney, man whose son Liam died in MH17:

"I don't expect a lot. I expect to be told what we already know that the plane was actually blown out of the sky and everybody on board died."

4. Sweeney greeting woman who has also come to the event

5. Sweeney standing with woman at door

6. Sweeney and woman entering hotel

7. Journalists

8. Exterior of Forum Hotel in The Hague

FILE: Hrabove - 18 July 2014

9. Wide of debris at crash site, tape cordoning it off in foreground

10. Emergency workers walking through debris with sticks to mark bodies and remains

11. Scattered luggage and passenger's belongings

12. Close of passenger's Malaysia Airlines medical record book and passport holder

13. Scattered belongings and luggage including "I HEART Amsterdam" T-shirt

The parents of a woman who died on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 travelled from Perth, Australia to honour their daughter at the crash site in eastern Ukraine.

George "Jerzy" Dyczynski and Angela Rudhart-Dyczynski, parents of 25-year-old Fatima, crossed territory held by pro-Russian rebels to reach the wreckage-strewn farm fields outside the village of Hrabove.

They last spoke to Fatima shortly before she boarded the flight for Kuala Lumpur in Amsterdam on July 17.

"We have promised our daughter we will come here," Rudhart-Dyczynski said.

Her husband added that his daughter "was for peace, she is for peace and she will be forever for peace."

US and Ukrainian officials say the plane was shot down by a missile from rebel territory, likely by mistake. 298 people died.

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1. Various of George "Jerzy" Dyczynski and Angela Rudhart-Dyczynski, parents of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17's crash victim Fatima Dyczynski, walking through crash site

2. Various of Dyczynskis standing in crash site

2. SOUNDBITE (English) George "Jerzy" Dyczynski, father of MH17 victim Fatima Dyczynski:

"We are for peace. She (Fatima) was for peace, she is for peace and she will be forever for peace."

3. Pieces of wreckage from plane at the Dyczynskis' feet

4. Picture of Fatima on George's T-shirt

5. Dyczynskis talking to media

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Angela Rudhart-Dyczynski, mother of MH17 victim Fatima Dyczynski:

"We cried a lot and that's why we promised her, the first thing when we heard that, how we should (could have) survived this? We said how do we survive this? He said: 'How should we survive this?' Then we said: 'No, no, we have to look what our DNA's now doing'."

7. Dyczynskis walking through crash site

8. Various of the Dyczynskis inspecting wing of plane

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Angela Rudhart-Dyczynski, mother of MH17 victim Fatima Dyczynski:

"We have promised our daughter we will come here. But, it actually, as soon as possible. There was a time factor, yeah? We should have come here the minute it happened. The next day, but..."

10. Dyczynskis standing next to wing of plane