Foreign Affairs minister Julie Bishop informs the House of Reps that 251 of the 298 victims of the MH17 plane crash have been identified.
"Did you know that someone was found with an oxygen mask over his mouth? ... Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans commentating on a passenger on the shot down commercial flight MH17. Picture: Don Emmert Source: AFP
DUTCH prosecutors say the body of an Australian who perished on Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was found wearing an oxygen mask, raising questions about how much those on board knew about their fate when the plane plunged out of the sky above eastern Ukraine.
Prosecution spokesman Wim de Bruin says the passenger did not have the mask on his face, but its elastic strap was around his neck.
De Bruin says it is not known "how or when the mask got around the victim's neck".
All 298 crew and passengers, including 38 Australian citizens and residents, died when the jet flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed on July 17.
Dutch investigators said last month it was likely struck by multiple "high-energy objects from outside the aircraft," causing it to break up
The revelation comes after Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans indicated that some of the passengers and crew on board may have remained conscious after the aircraft was shot down by a Buk surface-to-air missile fired by pro-Russian separatists 50km from the Ukraine-Russia border on July 17, BNO News reported.
Evidence of puncture holes ... Photos from the Preliminary report crash involving Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 flight MH17. Source: Supplied
The scheduled international passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed near Torez in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. All passengers, including 38 Australians, and crew died.
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Timmermans, who was being interviewed on the Dutch national broadcaster's show Pauw, answered a comment from host Jeroen Pauw that the final moments aboard Flight MH17 were not as suggested during Timmerman's speech at the UN Security Council in the week after the atrocity.
"No, they did not see the missile coming, but did you know that someone was found with an oxygen mask over his mouth? So someone had the time to do that," Timmermans said, dismissing Pauw's question.
Shot down by surface-to-air missile ... Part of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 at the crash site in the village of Hrabove (Grabovo), 80km east of Donetsk. Picture: Alexander Khudoteply Source: AFP
Timmermans added that there was no evidence to conclude that the final moments could not have been as he said in his UN speech.
Timmermans suggested that passengers had remained conscious after the airliner was struck by a suspected missile during his UN speech on July 21.
Experts later said everyone on board was likely killed immediately or, if not, became unconscious within seconds.
"I've been thinking how horrible the final moments of their lives must have been, when they knew the plane was going down," Timmermans said during his speech at the UN.
"Did they lock hands with their loved ones, did they hold their children close to their hearts, did they look each other in the eyes, one final time, in a wordless goodbye? We will never know."
A preliminary report by the Dutch Safety Board said that puncture holes in the aircraft's wreckage suggested that small objects penetrated the aircraft in both the cockpit and forward sections. Holes were also found on the cockpit floor. Through analysis, the damage to the body of the aircraft is consistent with "high-energy objects" piercing the aircraft from the outside, they said.
Forensic experts have so far been unable to recover all bodies from the site of the crash due to ongoing fighting in the area. A total of 228 coffins have been flown back to the Netherlands for identification, but some of the coffins contained only partial remains, and it is unclear how many bodies remain unaccounted for.
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