On 22 July 2014 , a Malaysian team of 133 officials , search and recovery personnel , and forensics , technical and medical experts arrived in Ukraine . Also Australia sent a 45-member panel headed by former Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston , who had earlier supervised the MH 370 probe . Approximately 200 special forces soldiers from Australia were also deployed to provide support for the JIT investigators . The United Kingdom sent six investigators from the Air Accidents Investigation Branch ( AAIB ) and the UK Foreign Office sent extra consular staff to Ukraine . It took until late July before the full international team could start working at the crash site , under the leadership of the Dutch Ministry of Defence
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