pro-Russian officials have commissioned the transport of the wreckage back to the Ukraine . In its preliminary report in September on the disaster , the Dutch agency said Flight 17 broke apart in the air after it was hit by a burst of `` high-energy objects '' from outside . They say the recovery operation is expected to take July . The passenger jet carrying 38 people was shot down in several days over eastern Ukraine . Investigators were prevented from accessing the site by the unstable situation .
pro-Russian officials have commissioned the transport of the wreckage back to the Ukraine . They say the recovery operation is expected to take July . The passenger jet carrying 38 people was shot down in several days over eastern Ukraine . Investigators were prevented from accessing the site by the unstable situation .