THE HAGUE: Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was destroyed by a Buk surface-to-air missile over eastern Ukraine, the Dutch safety board said on Tuesday as it presented the results of an official probe into the crash.
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.
The Dutch investigators said the missile exploded less than a metre from the MH17 cockpit, killing three crew in the cockpit and breaking off the front of …read more
Source: The Bangladesh Today