A silent march in Amsterdam broken only by some singing followed a day full of emotion as the first of the bodies from last week’s Malaysia airlines disaster arrived in the Netherlands.<br /><br />Two thirds of the 298 victims of flight MH17 were Dutch and the sombre sight of a convoy of hearses will be repeated many times over the coming days.<br /><br />Ukraine, where the plane came down, hopes to return all the bodies of several nationalities by the end of the week.<br /><br />As the mourning goes on so does the investigation. The cockpit voice recorder of the ill-fated jet is said to be in good condition. It and the digital data recorder are both now in the hands of British experts. <br /><br />In an interview with Reuters news agency Ukrainian rebel leader Alexander Khodakovsky has for the first time confirmed that pro-Russian separatists had an anti-aircraft missile, of the type Washington says was used to bring the plane down.<br /><br />Although the rebel leader later denied everything, accident investigators studying the debris of the plane have highlighted puncture marks on some of the fuselage consisted with a missile detonation.
