DUTCH politicians will get the chance to grill the authors of the definitive report into the downing of MH17 at a meeting in the Netherlands Tuesday evening.

Chairman of the Dutch Safety Board Tjibbe Joustra, along with Vice Chairman Erwin Muller, Councilor Marjolein van Asselt and spokesman Mr Van der Weegen will face MPs at a meeting that the public can watch online.

It’s the first time politicians will have the chance to ask questions of the authors of the comprehensive 15-month report into the disaster which found a Russian made surface-to-air Buk missile exploded outside the plane causing it to crash.

All 298 people on board were killed, including 38 Australian citizens and residents.

A spokeswoman for the Dutch Safety Board said the members were asked by the Dutch houses of parliament, known as the Tweede Kamer to attend.

“The parliament will use this hearing to prepare on the debate about the final report with the Dutch cabinet,” she said. While families and the public will be able to follow online, they will not have a chance to ask questions.

While the Dutch Safety Board report released on October 13 provided a painstaking analysis of the tragedy, it stopped short of allocating “blame and liability” for the event.

That question will be answered in a separate criminal investigation by a Joint Investigation team made up of members from Australia, Belgium, Malaysia, the Netherlands and Ukraine.

Christian Democratic Party MP Peiter Omtzigt said he will used today’s meeting to ask about radar and satellite data which he says was not made available to investigators.

“Is there a public complaint against Russia, which wiped raw primary radar data on which rockets, military aeroplanes and the pieces of the MH17 would be visible?”

“Is it credible that Ukraine had both the primary military and the primary civil radar switched off?” he said.

“I have been in touch with a number of [the families]. They want to know what happened. If you get the radar and satellite data, you get a lot closer to establishing who shot the rocket,” he said.

A live stream of the event, in Dutch, can be watched online here.