A report released by the Dutch Safety Board said there was "no evidence of technical or human error".
"Flight MH17... operated by Malaysia Airlines broke up in the air probably as the result of structural damage caused by a large number of high-energy objects that penetrated the aircraft from outside," said the DSB in the preliminary report.
The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 exploded over eastern Ukraine en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on 17 July, killing all on board, including 193 Dutch citizens.
The DSB said the plane was airworthy when it took off from Amsterdam and was staffed by a "qualified and experienced crew".
It said the fact that it was hit by high-speed objects "explains the abrupt end to data registration on the recorders, the simultaneous loss of contact with air traffic control and the aircraft's disappearance from radar"..........................http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0909/642399-mh17/
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Malaysia Airlines passenger plane reported crashed in Ukraine (with 295 people on board)
Preliminary results of the Malaysian Boeing crash in eastern Ukraine will be published on September 9, the Dutch security council said on Thursday....
Well-informed sources say the document will contain the factual information obtained from accessible sources including onboard flight records and radar stations, as well as satellite imaging and other visual sources.
Dutch experts say Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 broke up in mid-air after being hit by "numerous objects" that "pierced the plane at high velocity"....
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Malaysian minister warns access to crash site of Malaysian Boeing impossible yet...
ReplyDeleteSINGAPORE, September 9. /ITAR-TASS/. Malaysian Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein has declared that the situation in the area of the crash of the Malaysian Boeing remains dangerous, and that access to the crash site is impossible, the Star on-line portal quoted the minister, who is currently on a visit to Kiev, as saying on Tuesday. The minister's conclusion is based on a report made by Ukrainian Major-General Bogdan Bondar, the source said.
The defense minister said that at a meeting with Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine Ihor Kabanenko the two sides reached an agreement that an international commission of representatives of Australia, Malaysia and the Netherlands should be guaranteed safe access to the crash site as soon as possible, the source said.
Hishammuddin Hussein said in a previous statement that he would arrive in Moscow on September 10 to negotiate problems of an investigation into the crash of the Malaysian passenger plane on the territory of the Donetsk region on July 17.
The plane belonging to the Malaysian Airlines company crashed in the Donetsk region when it was performing a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala-Lumpur. All the 298 people on board were killed.
http://en.itar-tass.com/world/748712
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ournalist: MH17 Preliminary Report Says Nothing, Leaves Questions Unanswered...
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A preliminary report issued by the Dutch Safety Board on the MH17 crash tells absolutely nothing, and just leaves the unanswered questions open for another year, Frederick William Engdahl, an American German freelance journalist told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.
"The report tells us absolutely nothing, as there is no data, that would indicate anything to anybody," Engdahl said.
"It seems it was released just to tell us that the real report will be released in one year from now. It is worthless and silly that they even went through this big drama to bring it out at this point. It is worth nothing to any party in the dispute, nor to the families of the people that were in the plane," he added.
Engdahl emphasized that the observers of the Dutch Safety board were blocked from going to the site of the wreckage because of continuous shelling in the area, which the Kiev government could not stop.
“They couldn’t go near. However, had the Kiev government been genuinely interested in a truthful analysis, they would have called a ceasefire and allowed the investigators to go in,” he said.
Engdahl noted that independence supporters willingly gave the black box recorder to the Malaysian authorities, and didn’t handle any investigations. Engdahl also underlined that Washington has released absolutely no definitive evidence that indicates independence supporters could be responsible for the crash.
“They have released no forensic evidence that indicates that it was done by either Russia or by the independence supporters in Eastern Ukraine,” he asserted.
“The idea that the EU and the US impose sanctions against Russia based on the charge by the US without the evidence that they have shot down the MH17 is absurd and the extreme, just like the new sanctions of the EU pressured by Washington to adopt them just in case the ceasefire, actually proposed by Putin, doesn’t work,” Engdahl added.
Engdahl also stated that further transparent and independent investigation needs to be carried out in order to determine real causes of the catastrophe.
“I think the essential forensic evidence needs to be taken out of the hands of bias parties, and genuine independent experts committee should be called on to examine the full evidence, including the onsite wreckage and everything around that. Besides, all of the information that air traffic control inside Ukraine has on the particular airline has to be released. And until that is done I think there is nothing to be set,” Engdahl concluded.............http://en.ria.ru/analysis/20140909/192783966/Journalist-MH17-Preliminary-Report-Says-Nothing-Leaves-Questions.html
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