ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />A Dutch air force transport plane carrying the first 16 coffins with the remains of victims of the downed Malaysian airliner landed in the Netherlands on Wednesday (July 23).<br/> <br />The plane arrived in Eindhoven to a ceremony on their national day of mourning. The plane will then fly to the Hilversum military base for identification.<br/> <br />All 298 people on board the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 perished when it was brought down last Thursday over rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine, where Kiev is struggling to quell a pro-Russian separatist rebellion.<br/> <br />Many of the victims were Dutch and the Netherlands will carry out their identification.
