The focus is now on the passengers of the MH17 fateful flight, the 298 innocent souls who lost their lives in this tragic manner, while the global community seeks answers and searching to find who was behind the shooting of the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 in eastern Ukraine.

Amongst the victims 80 children and 100 leading researchers, scientists and activists are included, who went to the 20th World Congress on combating AIDS in Melbourne.

Overall aboard the plane were 189 Dutch, 44 Malays, 27 Australians, 12 Indonesians and 10 Britons, while three peoples identities have not yet been confirmed.

They all began the long journey from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur for different reasons and with different dreams and hopes, but it seems that they all had a common fate that none of them could have imagined.