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-FILE- This Tuesday Sept. 9, 2014, file image shows a Malaysia Airlines miniature plane with a text reading "RIP MH17", displayed at a memorial site for the victims of the MH17 air disaster at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, Netherlands. United by grief across oceans and continents, families who lost loved ones when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down in 2014 hope that a trial starting next week will finally deliver them something that has remained elusive ever since: The truth. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

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Dutch trial opens for 4 suspects in downing of flight MH17
March 9, 2020 6:53 a.m.

Dutch trial opens for 4 suspects in downing of flight MH17

SCHIPHOL, Netherlands (AP) — As the trial of three Russians and a Ukrainian charged with multiple counts of murder for their alleged involvement in the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 got underway Monday, a Dutch prosecutor solemnly read out the names of all 298 people killed in the attack.