MH17 Almost four months after the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine, the recovery of the plane’s wreckage has begun.

The Dutch Safety Board announced on its website today that it had commissioned the recovery and transport of the wreckage to the Netherlands, as part of its investigation into the cause of the incident.

“As part of the investigation, the Dutch Safety Board intends to reconstruct a section of the aircraft,” it said in a statement available on its website.

According to the statement, the recovery operation is expected to take several days, depending on safety conditions and other factors.

“This will be assessed daily. The recovered wreckage will be collected at a location near the crash site, from where the wreckage will be transported to Kharkov and finally, to the Netherlands.

“At this point, the Dutch Safety Board cannot give detailed information on the means of transportation and the time schedule,” it said.

Flight MH17 with 298 passengers and crew on board was shot down over the troubled eastern Ukraine while on its way to Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam on July 17, this year.

- Bernama