Two years ago today, on July 17, 2014, 298 civilians from 11 countries perished when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine.
The Dutch Safety Board concluded in its October 2015 final report that MH17, traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was hit by a Buk surface-to-air missile fired from territory controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in eastern Ukraine.
“No scenario other than a Buk surface-to-air missile can explain this combination of facts,” the report said.
Reuters/ Maxim Zmeyev
“It was a Buk missile that hit the left upper part of the cockpit,” a visibly shaken relative, Robby Oehlers, told …read more
Source: Business Insider
