The 15-month investigation was not tasked with apportioning blame or liability for the crash – a separate criminal probe into who is responsible is to follow. “Their use was prohibited and the missiles were withdrawn from service”, the CEO said.
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“In the months before the crash, at least 16 military airplanes and helicopters were shot down in the eastern part of Ukraine. However, according to our information, it was not taken into account”, Novikov said. Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said his country “seeks justice” but that the resolution was politically motivated.
Commenting for the first time on the Dutch Safety Board’s final report, Mr Rutte said that a key priority “is now tracking down and prosecuting the perpetrators”.
The presentation seems created to cast doubt on mounting evidence that the missile that destroyed MH17 was sacked from near Snizhne, in separatist-held territory south east of the crash site in Ukraine. All the camouflaged rebels who were patrolling the area and manning the checkpoints are gone.
Location where missile was sacked at #MH17 “outside the mandate of Dutch Safety Board” chair says.
In July, Russian Federation vetoed a bid at the United Nations Security Council to set up an global tribunal to try those behind the downing of the aircraft.
The final report was due to be officially unveiled later Tuesday.
Fragments of the missile were discovered in the bodies of the three crew in the cockpit, the board said. While a few of the passengers may have been conscious in the up to 90 seconds it took to hit the ground, they probably were not fully aware of what was happening amid the oxygen-starved, freezing chaos.
“It can be assumed that the rebels would not be able to operate such a device”. The company’s experts arrived at the conclusion that the aircraft must have been brought down by the 9M38M1 anti-aircraft missile of the BUK-M1 missile system launched from the area south of the village of Zaroschenskoye.
A Russian manufacturer has refuted claims that its Buk missiles were the cause of the MH17 air disaster.
“Nobody gave a thought to a possible threat to civil aviation”, said Joustra.
Part of the cockpit and the business class section of the jet have been reassembled in a hanger at Gilze-Rijen Airforce Base in The Netherlands, where the report will be published.
The missile’s Russian maker, however, presented its own report hours earlier, trying to clear Russia-backed separatists who controlled the area or Russia of any involvement in the crash on July 17, 2014, that killed all 298 people aboard the plane.
Fredriksz’s son Bryce was killed in the disaster.
But two sources told the Volkskrant that “the BUK missile is developed and made in Russian Federation”. That was clearly indicated.
“They showed us the fragments that were inside the plane”, Oehlers said, adding that in the room “it was so quiet, you could have heard a pin drop”.
The latest news on the report into the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 in eastern Ukraine a year ago.
He says, “It was a Buk”.
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The missile, which was sacked from eastern Ukraine, detonated to the left of the cockpit, the Dutch Safety Board said.
