MH17: Reports submitted to Dutch, IGP heads to Netherlands

KIEV: The Malaysian team investigating the crash of the Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH17 aircraft at a site in Torez, eastern Ukraine has submitted its reports to the Dutch authorities heading the investigation.
MAS director of engineering and maintenance Azhari Mohd Dahlan, 53, who is one of three Malaysians conducting investigations into the crash in the Donetsk region, told Bernama: "We are relieved."
"All the investigation reports have been given to the Dutch as they head the investigation," he said upon arrival in Kiev, about 800km from Torez by train Friday morning.
He, however, did not want to comment further on the four-day investigation carried out by him and the other two Malaysian investigators comprising Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) Senior Assistant Director Captain Philip Joseph Selvaraju, 42, a former pilot, and DCA Senior Assistant Director Mohd Naemy Fahmy Mustapa, 38.
The Boeing 777-200 aircraft carrying 298 people - 283 passengers and 15 crew - was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it went down in Donetsk near the Russian border on July 17.
Foreign media reported that the aircraft was shot down but until today, no one has claimed responsibility for the incident.
Azhari and the 133 Malaysian special team members, led by Khairil Hilmi Mokhtar, who is also National Security Council (MKN) Cross Border Management Division principal assistant secretary, were scheduled to depart for Kuala Lumpur Friday noon (local time).
Meanwhile according to MKN, a total of 60 bodies of those on board Flight MH17 will be flown to the Netherlands. Until yesterday, a total of 114 bodies had been flown to the Netherlands, it said.
There were four refrigerated train coaches which carried 282 bodies of Flight MH17 victims from Donetsk to Kharkiv for tagging before being flown to Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

AG, IGP head to Netherlands
Attorney-General Tan Sri Gani Patail and three Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) investigation officers will leave for Netherlands tomorrow to assist in the investigations of the crash.
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said Gani and the investigation officers would also convene a meeting with the Dutch authorities.
"They will assist the Malaysian team there, especially to ease the movement of the team," he told reporters after the launch of PDRM new departments here today.
Prior to this, Khalid said PDRM had deployed 21 forensic officers to carry out investigation on the MH17 incident in Ukraine and Netherlands.
The MAS flight, MH17, which was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, went down in Donetsk, east Ukraine near the Russian border on July 17. The Boeing 777-200 jetliner carrying 298 passengers and crew was believed to have been shot down, although no party had claimed responsibility.
Meanwhile, Khalid said the new departments launched today were the Crime Prevention and Community Safety Department (JPJKK) and the Integrity and Standard Compliance Department (JIPS).
"The JPJKK was set up with the aim to reduce crime rates through an effective crime prevention system, while JIPS will focus on enhancing police integrity and image in the eyes of the public," he added.

Recording not tampered with
Upon arrival at KLIA from Amsterdam today, Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said a hearing process from the cockpit and flight path recorder had already been conducted by the International investigation team on the two black boxes retrieved from the plane.
He said there had not been any evident tampering with the recording and that it is now up to the investigation team to document the retrieved data.
"We did not find any sign that the recording had been tampered with. We could hear the content," he told reporters.
He also said the government will increase the number of investigating personnel as needed.
Liow said Netherlands will inform the government if they have identified the nationalities of the bodies after post mortem.
"We are doing our best to handle this crisis and our top priority is to ensure families are united with the remains of the crash victims," he said.
"We have given our support to all quarters and MAS has also done a great job in helping the families and assisting in the investigation," he added.
The two black boxes retrieved form the crashed plane have been brought to Air Accidents Investigation Branch in Farnborough, United Kingdom, and is being investigated by 10 multi-national experts including Malaysia.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 were ferrying 298 passengers from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was believed to be shot down by pro-Russian separatist member over eastern Ukraine skies.