Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashed in mid-July in eastern Ukraine. Here, a woman walks with her bicycle near the crash site on Saturday, August 2. 
Australian and Dutch experts examine the area of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 plane crash on August 3, near the village of Rossipne, in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. 
Police secure a refrigerated train loaded with bodies of passengers from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 as it arrives in a Kharkiv, Ukraine, factory on Tuesday, July 22. 
A pro-Russia rebel passes wreckage from the crashed jet near the eastern Ukraine village of Hrabove on Monday, July 21. 
Wreckage from the jet lies in grass near Hrabove on July 21. 
A man covers his face with a rag as members of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the Dutch National Forensic Investigations Team inspect bodies in a refrigerated train near the crash site in eastern Ukraine on July 21. The remains of 16 people are still missing, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said. 
Emergency workers carry a victim's body in a bag at the crash site on July 21. Search teams have recovered more than 270 bodies, officials say. 
A piece of the Boeing 777 lies in the grass in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region on July 21. 
An armed pro-Russia rebel stands guard next to a refrigerated train loaded with bodies in Torez, Ukraine, on Sunday, July 20. 
Ukrainian State Emergency Service employees sort through debris on July 20 as they work to locate the deceased. 
A woman covers her mouth with a piece of fabric July 20 to ward off smells from railway cars that reportedly contain passengers' bodies. 
Toys and flowers sit on the charred fuselage of the jet as a memorial on July 20. 
People search a wheat field for remains in the area of the crash site on July 20. 
A woman walks among charred debris at the crash site on Sunday, July 20. 
Emergency workers load the body of a victim onto a truck at the crash site on Saturday, July 19. 
Emergency workers carry the body of a victim at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine on Saturday, July 19. 
A large piece of the main cabin is under guard at the crash site on July 19. 
Victims' bodies are placed by the side of the road on July 19 as recovery efforts continue at the crash site. International officials lament the lack of a secured perimeter. 
A man looks through the debris at the crash site on July 19. 
An envelope bearing the Malaysia Airlines logo at the crash site on July 19. 
Armed rebels walk past large pieces of the Boeing 777 on July 19. 
Ukrainian rescue workers walk through a wheat field with a stretcher as they collect the bodies of victims on July 19. 
A woman looks at wreckage at the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash site on July 19. 
Pro-Russian fighters stand guard as the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe delegation arrives at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine on Friday, July 18. 
A woman walks through the debris field on July 18. 
Pro-Russia rebels stand guard at the crash site. 
Wreckage from Flight 17 lies in a field in Shaktarsk, Urkaine on July 18. International inspectors are headed to the crash site to search for the plane's flight data recorders. 
A man covers a body with a plastic sheet near the crash site July 18. The passengers and crew hailed from all over the world, including Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Germany and Canada. 
A diver searches for the jet's flight data recorders on July 18. 
Coal miners search the crash site. 
Wreckage from the Boeing 777 lies on the ground July 18 in rebel-held eastern Ukraine. 
People search for bodies of passengers on July 18. 
A woman walks past a body covered with a plastic sheet near the crash site July 18. The diversity of the victims' nationalities has turned the crash into a global tragedy. 
Belongings of passengers lie in the grass on July 18. 
People inspect the crash site on Thursday, July 17. 
People walk amid the debris at the site of the crash. 
Debris smoulders in a field near the Russian border. 
Fire engines arrive at the crash site. 
A man stands next to wreckage. 
Debris from the crashed jet lies in a field in Ukraine. 
Family members of those aboard Flight 17 leave Schiphol Airport near Amsterdam, Netherlands. 
A large piece of the plane lies on the ground. 
Luggage from the flight sits in a field at the crash site. 
A couple walks to the location at Schiphol Airport near Amsterdam where more information will be given regarding the flight. 
Flight arrivals are listed at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia. 
Debris from the Boeing 777, pictured on July 17. 
A man inspects debris from the plane. 
Wreckage from the plane is seen on July 17. 
A man talks with security at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on July 17. 
Wreckage burns in Ukraine. 
A man stands next to the wreckage of the airliner that crashed July 17 in Ukraine. 
People inspect a piece of wreckage believed to be from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in Ukraine. This image was posted to Twitter. 
People inspect a piece of wreckage believed to be from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. This image was posted to Twitter. 
A piece of wreckage believed to be from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. This image was posted to Twitter. 
A piece of wreckage believed to be from MH17. This image was posted to Twitter. 
An airsickness bag believed to be from MH17. This image was posted to Twitter. 
A piece of wreckage believed to be from MH17. This image was posted to Twitter.
- Malaysian PM: "We intend to send our teams to the crash site as soon as possible"
- Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine in July
- After the crash, separatists took control of the site and hindered access to investigators
- Of the 298 people killed, around two-thirds were Dutch
(CNN) -- Malaysia plans to send investigators to the crash site of MH17 in Ukraine to retrieve body parts still scattered across fields.
"We intend to send our teams to the crash site as soon as possible," Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said Saturday in the capital of Kuala Lumpur.
Malaysia will work closely with Australia, Ukraine and the Netherlands to ensure that the remains are returned to their families, he said.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was headed from Amsterdam, Netherlands, to Kuala Lumpur when it was shot down over eastern Ukraine on July 17.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who was in Kuala Lumpur for a bilateral meeting with Najib, reiterated the need for an international investigation.
"We owe it to the families of the victims ... not to rest until the perpetrators of this atrocity are brought to justice," Abbott said.
"It's quite likely that there are remains still left strewn across the fields of eastern Ukraine," he said.
Dutch investigators plan to issue a preliminary report Tuesday on the crash. Of the 298 people killed, around two-thirds were from the Netherlands.
More investigations will be conducted before a final report is issued, the Dutch Safety Board has said. The final report is expected within a year after the crash.
It's unclear who downed the plane, but the United States and Ukraine have accused pro-Russian separatists operating in the region of hitting it with a missile.
After the crash, the separatists took control of the site for weeks, combing through the wreckage and hindering access to investigators.
The rebels in the region signed a ceasefire agreement with Ukraine's government Friday after past attempts to stop the conflict failed.
CNN's Eve Bower contributed to this report
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