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PHOTOS: The ghostly reconstruction of MH17 from fragments recovered at crash site

Amanda Macias   

PHOTOS: The ghostly reconstruction of MH17 from fragments recovered at crash site
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An Emergencies Ministry member walks at a site of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane crash near the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk region, July 17, 2014.

On July 17, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was shot down over eastern Ukraine.

The Dutch Safety Board concluded in its

October 2015 final report that the downing of MH17, which killed all 298 passengers from 11 countries, was hit by a Buk surface-to-air missile fired from territory controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in eastern Ukraine.

While presenting the findings of the report, Dutch investigators unveiled reconstructed models built from the wreckage of the Boeing 777's nose, cockpit and business class.

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