The sad final journey home: First bodies of MH17 victims leave Ukraine on transport plane

 The first bodies of those killed in the MH17 massacre have left Ukraine on a cargo plane that will transport them to the Netherlands.

The remains of around 200 international victims of the Malaysia Airlines tragedy have already been moved by train from the rebel-held city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine to government-controlled Kharkiv, and will now be flown to Eindhoven to carry out an identification process which could take months.

There is concern however, that as many as 95 victims - one third of the total number of passengers on board MH17 - may still be missing after Dutch officials counted only 200 bodies on the morgue train on which rebels claim they placed 282 corpses and 87 body parts from a further 16 people.

 The king and queen of the Netherlands will lead mourners as the first victims of the disaster are repatriated from the Ukraine later today.

 Two military aircraft will fly some of them to Eindhoven this afternoon, where they will be met by the royals, Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte and relatives.

The Netherlands government said a minute's silence will be held before a motorcade takes the bodies to the Korporaal van Oudheusden barracks, where the process of identifying them will begin.

This morning the black boxes from flight MH17 arrived in Farnborough, Hampshire, where a team of British investigators from the Air Accidents Investigation Branch will analyse its contents for clues about what happened in the moments before the plane was shot out the sky.

After arriving in Eindhoven, the bodies will be taken to the Kaporaal van Oudheusden military barracks in Hilversum, around 65 miles away.

'As soon as a victim is identified first and foremost the family will be informed and no one else. That can take weeks or months,' said Mr Rutte.