A year on, relatives grieve and wait for answers

Drawn-out investigations into why aircraft crashed add to the families' frustrations

On their son Bryce's birthday this year, Silene Fredriksz-Hoogzand and her husband, Rob, went to a Dutch air base, watched pallbearers solemnly unload seven coffins from a military cargo plane, and wondered if they contained parts of the remains of Bryce or his girlfriend, Daisy Oehlers.

For many families of the 298 people killed when Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was brought down on July 17 last year over eastern Ukraine, uncertainty and agonizing waiting is still woven into the fabric of life a year later.