Flight crash trial

SYDNEY: The perpetrators who brought down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in July 2014, killing all 298 aboard, may be tried in absentia, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said yesterday.

Most of those on board the Boeing 777 were Dutch, but others came from 17 countries, including 38 Australians.

The aircraft was shot down by a Russian-made Buk missile over eastern Ukrainian territory held by pro-Russia separatists, the Dutch Safety Board concluded in 2015.

Late last month, the Netherlands said that suspects involved in the case would be tried in a Dutch court, and under Dutch law. Reuters –