"The Public Prosecutor's office will within a few months have finished its criminal probe into what type of BUK rocket was used and is expected to prove exactly where it was fired from," the public newscaster NOS said.
All 298 passengers and crew - the majority of them Dutch - died when the plane was shot down with a Russian-made BUK anti-aircraft missile over war-torn eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014.
Officials with the Dutch Safety Board (OVV) concluded last year in their investigation that the Boeing 777 was hit by a BUK fired from rebel-held territory, but did not give precise details nor definitively say who was responsible.
Dutch media on Friday said chief criminal investigator Fred Westerbeke said in a confidential letter that there were no film or video images of the actual missile launch.
"There are also no satellite images as a result of cloud cover" over the area in war-ravaged eastern Ukraine, Westerbeke told victims' families.
- Victims' families last month urged the Dutch government to launch a global campaign to obtain primary radar images which may help pinpoint who fired the missile. But Westerbeke wrote that Ukraine did not have the data and that investigators were still "in talks" with Moscow for their radar images, while the US has handed over its radar data.
Russian aviation authorities earlier this month in a separate letter told victims' families they had handed over primary radar data to the OVV and "still keeps the data and is ready to resubmit it to relevant authorized organizations."
Source: AFP
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