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      Netherlands: MH17 crash fails to slow business at Amsterdam airport00:54

      Netherlands: MH17 crash fails to slow business at Amsterdam airport

      Netherlands, Amsterdam
      Politics
      July 18, 2014 at 23:03 GMT +00:00 · Published

      Travellers began returning to Amsterdam's Schiphol airport in the early hours of Friday, after the airport played host to devastated family members of the victims of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 on Thursday.

      The flight, which went down over eastern Ukraine on Thursday, was carrying 154 Dutch people, including a group of medical researchers en route to an international AIDS conference in Australia.

      The Boeing 777 crashed near Grabovo, located approximately 60 kilometres (37 miles) from the border with Russia, while en route to Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam. It has not yet been ascertained how the crash occurred.

      Netherlands: MH17 crash fails to slow business at Amsterdam airport00:54
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      Travellers began returning to Amsterdam's Schiphol airport in the early hours of Friday, after the airport played host to devastated family members of the victims of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 on Thursday.

      The flight, which went down over eastern Ukraine on Thursday, was carrying 154 Dutch people, including a group of medical researchers en route to an international AIDS conference in Australia.

      The Boeing 777 crashed near Grabovo, located approximately 60 kilometres (37 miles) from the border with Russia, while en route to Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam. It has not yet been ascertained how the crash occurred.

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