THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch Safety Board is publishing its final report Tuesday into what caused Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 to break up high over Eastern Ukraine last year, killing all 298 people on board.
A preliminary report issued last year said the Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur likely was hit by multiple “high-energy objects from outside the aircraft,” fueling widespread speculation that it was downed by a surface-to-air missile, likely a Russian SA-11 system known as a Buk.
Western authorities have pointed blame at Russian-backed separatist rebels who were fighting Ukrainian government forces in the area …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
