Dutch investigators to 'piece together' MH17 remains to determine cause of crash

The wreckage of the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 has reached an air force hanger in Holland as experts now set down to the task of determining the cause of the crash.

The Dutch Safety Board said that the remains of the Boeing 777 flight will be photographed, scanned and a reconstruction of the airliner would be attempted, reported The Daily Express.

However, its head Tjibbe Joustr said that parts of the aircraft are still missing and the team may take several months to try to "piece the plane together."

A report on the cause of the crash is expected only until the middle of next year.

Meanwhile, a probe is being carried out by Dutch prosecutors in 11 countries to identify the possible culprits.

The West believes that pro-Russia rebels in eastern Ukraine brought down the plane with a surface-to-air missile.

All 298 people on board were killed in the Malaysian Airlines MH17 crash over eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014.