The ICAO welcomed the Dutch investigation Tuesday, which was conducted under the global requirements established by the Convention on worldwide Civil Aviation, also known as the Chicago Convention.
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“Russia is seeking to discredit the investigation”, she said.
The crash in July 2014 killed all 298 people on board, most of whom were from the Netherlands. “The weapon used was a warhead model 9N314M a missile 9M38 series, as installed on the Buk surface-to-air missile system”.
“As a result of the impact and the subsequent blast, the three crew members in the cockpit were killed immediately and the aeroplane broke up in the air”.
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has stated that the investigation into the tragic downing of a Malaysian Airlines MH17 flight jetliner, which was carried by Dutch Safety Board, was independent, neutral and open.
Hours before the report was released, the missile’s Russian maker presented its own report trying to clear the separatists, and Russia itself, of any involvement in the disaster. Almaz-Antey, Russian manufacturer of the BUK surface-to-air missile system, rejects the conclusions of the Dutch commission.
A separate Dutch investigation, this one criminal, is looking into who fired the missile, which detonated just a few meters from the cockpit of the airliner, shattering the Boeing 777 in mid-air. “We have however concluded that as a precaution there was sufficient reason for Ukrainian authorities to close the airspace above the eastern part of the country”.
“The safety of passengers, crew and aeroplanes can be improved if states make this information available to all operators, not only to operators under their control”, the report said.
It remains unclear when deaths came, but a few might have remained unconscious for part of the one-and-a-half minutes it took the aircraft fragments to hit the ground.
“Yet, despite of all this, Ukraine did not close its airspace”. But it stops short of drawing a conclusion as to who fired the missile. And so the Dutch are left to take the lead in getting justice for their citizens. “I personally have no doubt that this was a planned operation of the Russian special services aimed at downing a civilian aircraft”, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said in a cabinet meeting.
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That the plane could have been shot down by warplanes (as Russian Federation initially claimed), or was destroyed by a few mechanical failure, or by explosives planted on board, or by a few other type of missile.
