Remains of five victims on board Malaysian Airlines MH17 will finally be flown home to the Netherlands, nearly four months after the plane crashed in Ukraine.

An honor guard carries the coffins during a somber ceremony - one of several -to repatriate the bodies of victims after the plane was downed in eastern Ukraine.

All 298 passengers and crew, most of them Dutch died in the disaster.

The remains of the five victims finally arrive home in the Netherlands. The bodies had been recently recovered by a Dutch team, during a temporary truce in the ongoing separatist conflict in Eastern Ukraine.

The five coffins are loaded into hearses and taken to an army base in Hilversum for DNA tests.

Nine victims remain unaccounted for.