Flight 17 victims, those of which were from the Netherlands, arrived in the military airport of the Dutch city of Eindhoven on Wednesday. The Flight 17 victims were of Malaysia Airlines crashing due to a shooting down over Ukraine territory.

According to The Wall Street Journal, there were forty coffins brought to the Dutch city of Eindhoven on Wednesday. This first set of coffins reportedly contained the first remains of the Flight 17 victims in the Malaysia Airlines crash over Ukraine.

These Flight 17 victims are the first from the MH17's 298 victims to arrive home in Holland from Ukraine. Nothing but shock and grief greeted the Flight 17 victims as they were returned to their home country.

It has been seven days since the chaotic outburst of scenes at the crash site in eastern Ukraine. Scattered bodies from the 298 passengers abound the crash site, decomposing in the summer heat. The return to the Netherlands of the first group of Flight 17 victims was, as they say, the first of many steps towards returning all Flight 17 victims to their loved ones.

The welcoming and grieving committee of the Flight 17 victims were composed of different sorts of Dutch citizens. They included teams of Dutch airmen, soldiers, sailors and marines, reports the WSJ. These people reportedly also carried the caskets off two aircraft surrounded by a crowd of relatives and dignitaries. Wednesday was Netherlands first national day of mourning in 50 years, says reports.

The first plane which carried last week's Flight 17 victims contained 16 bodies. The plane was a Hercules C-130, and it reportedly took off a few hours earlier from the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.

The second plane which carried another set of Flight 17 victims was an Australian Boeing C-17, reports The Telegraph. This second plane carried a further 24 corpses from the crash.

Finally, some of the victims from the horrific incident was returned back home.

According to The Telegraph, as the two planes taxied into position and went in front of about a thousand gathered relatives, a lone trumpeter stepped up to play the Last Post; echoing throughout the grieving and silent airfield.

At 4:00 p.m., the nation came to a halt and pondered over two thirds of the Flight 17 victims which have then returned back to them.

According to the WSJ, apart from the relatives of the Flight 17 victims in the military airport, thousands of Dutch citizens also crowded onto streets, flyovers and highways in a moment of grief and relief.

The silence filled streets from Amsterdam to Maastricht. According to The Telegraph, trains and traffic stood to a standstill. Planes did not take off or land as well. Cranes in Europe's largest port, Rotterdam, stopped operations. Supermarkets across the country with numerous shoppers paused to remember their dead.

Church bells rang after the planes touched down.

For over 90 minutes, the Telegraph said that 40 coffins have been unloaded and transferred into a waiting hearse.

The ceremony was only announced Tuesday evening.  Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte reportedly declared the national day of mourning the day before the Flight 17 victims were returned. The national day of mourning was, according to reports, the first seen by the country in over 50 years. The last in 1962, held during the death of their Queen Wilhelmina.

One woman outside the military base said yesterday, 'I think it's good for the relatives that this has been arranged.'

Barry Sweeney, whose son Liam was amongst the Flight 17 victims killed in the crash said, 'It makes you feel less alone. For all of us who have lost someone, it allows us to share our feelings.' Sweeney reportedly travelled from way over his home Newcastle in order to attend the ceremony.

Sweeney also told The Telegraph that the Dutch organisation of the event had been 'exceptional. It's been very moving. There were lots of tears.'

On his Tuesday announcement of the day of mourning, Rutte also warned families of the Flight 17 victims that identification of the bodies could take 'weeks or months,' since it was not known whose citizens were on board.

Reports say that representatives from every nation who had lost their countrymen were also present in the ceremony, and flags from these 17 countries were waved on the airfield.

According to The Telegraph, every flight bearing bodies from the Flight 17 victims will be provided the same ceremony, but without the international dignitaries.

As of the current moment, there have only been 40 of the estimated 200 bodies returned, therefore many more will be arriving at the airfield in the next few days.

The WSJ said that the Netherlands lost a total of 193 of its nationals in the crash which occurred a week ago.

All 298 people from 10 nations aboard the Malaysia Airlines flight, traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, have been killed instantly after getting shot down over eastern Ukraine.

Today, there is still a reported confusion over the specific count of bodies recovered from the 298 Flight 17 victims. According to separatist rebels, they have already recovered and handed over 282 bodies, and more than 80 body parts. However, Dutch officials estimate the tally to be far lower.

According to reports, the discrepancy came since body parts still littered the area while the crash site remained deserted.

Esther Naber, a spokeswoman with Dutch officers in Ukraine said, 'We will not know (the number of bodies) until we have finished the identification process and that could take months. The bags have not been opened. In certain body bags, they can be body parts from more than one person. We are talking about human remains really, not bodies.'

According to the WSJ, around 40 Dutch experts will begin identifying the remains through dental and DNA identification, which are known to be the two fastest and most accurate methods. A spokesman for the forensic team said that identification through fingerprints will be their last resort.

Flight 17 victims, of which the remaining bodies were still held in Kharkiv, Ukraine, will be flown to the Netherlands over the next few days, said officials.