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[265], Shortly after it became evident that it was a civilian aircraft which had been shot down, the separatist media denied any responsibility and denied having anti-aircraft missiles capable of reaching the cruising altitude of commercial traffic. [3]:45, At 16:20:03 local time (13:20:03 UTC), a Buk ground-to-air missile, which had been launched from an area southeast of the aircraft, detonated outside the airplane, just above and to the left of the cockpit. Video shows Russian jet falling from the sky. "[240], In response to the JIT's conclusions, Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated that the Russians are "not involved in it. Tjibbe Joustra, Chairman of the Dutch Safety Board, explained that the investigation thus far pointed "towards an external cause of the MH17 crash", but determining the exact cause required further investigation. [95] In late July, the UK Metropolitan Police sent specialist officers to Ukraine to assist with the recovery, identification and repatriation of bodies. RND Control confirmed that the airliner had disappeared. [380] Novaya Gazeta published an analysis, also denying the Almaz-Antey version,[381] which contained interviews with inhabitants of Zaroshchenske who denied claims that Ukrainian forces and Buk launchers were present in the village at that time. [222] The video included some previously undisclosed recordings allegedly of tapped phone conversations between rebel fighters about the Buk. 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[3]:152 At the same time, the two wing tips had fallen off from the wings of the aircraft. They claimed that the missile could not have been fired from Snizhne, but was instead fired from Zaroshchenske and that a Ukrainian anti-air unit was located there at that time. [77], Three other commercial aircraft were in the same area when the Malaysian airliner was shot down: Air India Flight 113 (AI113), a Boeing 787 en route from Delhi to Birmingham, EVA Air Flight 88 (BR88), a Boeing 777 en route from Paris to Taipei, and the closest aircraft, Singapore Airlines Flight 351 (SQ351), was 33 kilometres (21mi) away, a Boeing 777 en route from Copenhagen to Singapore. This was quickly dismissed as Putin's flight route was hundreds of kilometres north of Ukraine. [265] Although the Russian secret service attempted to hack into the Malaysian Attorney-General's office, investigation files of the Australian Federal Police and offices at The Hague, prosecutors say the identities of the witnesses still remained secure. [169] Russian news agency TASS also reported eyewitness accounts claiming that the Donbas militia had just shot down a Ukrainian An-26 military aircraft with a missile. [201], On 22 December 2014, the Dutch news service RTL Nieuws published a statement from an unnamed local resident who said he had witnessed the shooting down of MH17, which he said was shot down by a missile from rebel territory. Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17/MAS17)[a] was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down by Russian-controlled forces[4] on 17 July 2014, while flying over eastern Ukraine. [169][344][345] The news was immediately picked up and disseminated by many other news websites and the Russia-24 TV channel. The report also said that "damage observed on the forward fuselage and cockpit section of the aircraft appears to indicate that there were impacts from a large number of high-energy objects from outside the aircraft". [3]:23 It was due to arrive at Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 06:10 MYT, Friday, 18 July (22:10 UTC, 17 July). [392], According to the Russian military, in what New York magazine called "Russia's Conspiracy Theory", MH17 was shot down by the Ukrainians, using either a surface-to-air missile or a fighter aircraft. [336] In the three days following the incident, the Russian Internet Research Agency "troll farm" posted 111,486 tweets from fake accounts. [1][2][9], The findings by the DSB and JIT were consistent with the earlier claims by American and German intelligence sources[11][12] and claims by the Ukrainian government. 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It also published a statement from a witness who was said to be a separatist fighter (referred to by first name only) who confirmed that the launcher was placed in that area on the day of the Boeing crash to prevent Ukrainian airstrikes. [3]:150152 The explosive decompression could have incapacitated most occupants of the aircraft before the crash, though investigators never ruled out the possibility that some were still conscious when the aircraft impacted the ground. Andrei Purgin, a leader of the Donetsk People's Republic, declared later that "we will guarantee the safety of international experts on the scene as soon as Kiev concludes a ceasefire agreement". They were murdered by Russian-backed rebels using Russian-supplied equipment. [267], On 7 June 2021, the trial moved on to the evidence phase, during which lawyers and judges will discuss their findings. [237] The German government called on Russia to "fully explain the tragedy. [278], On 14 March 2022, Australia and the Netherlands announced that they had launched a joint legal action against Russia under Article 84 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation. Rutte threatened tough action against Russia if it did not help in the investigation. [394] In 2015 Bellingcat purchased satellite photos from the same area and time as used by the MoD and demonstrated that the MoD had used older photos (May and June 2014) in their presentation, and that the presentation had been edited to make a Ukrainian Buk launcher appear as if it had been removed after the attack. Bellingcat said that the launcher used to shoot down the aircraft was a Buk of the Russian 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade based in Kursk, which had been transported from Donetsk to Snizhne and was controlled by separatists in Ukraine on the day of the attack,[197][198][199][200] and that the Buk launcher had a serial number 332. [230] According to Dutch Public Prosecution Service, by 24 May 2018 "the authorities of the Russian Federation have not reported to the JIT that a Buk of the 53rd Brigade was deployed in Eastern Ukraine and that this Buk downed flight MH17. [294] Prime Minister Najib Razak said that Malaysia was unable yet to verify the cause of the crash but that, if the airliner was shot down, the perpetrators should be swiftly punished. Russia had given differing accounts over time of how MH17 was shot down; for example claiming to have evidence (radar images) that a Ukrainian fighter fired an air-to-air missile at MH17. [379] Ukrainska Pravda questioned claims about the Ukrainian anti-aircraft unit and stated that Zaroshchenske was under control of pro-Russian forces on the day of the shoot-down. JIT stated it had always carefully analysed information provided by Russia, but information presented to the public was inaccurate on several points. [258][259][260][261][262] Piet Ploeg, Chairman of the victims' relatives organisation "Stichting Vliegramp MH17", called Tsemakh's release "unacceptable". [5] [3]:5455, Most of the debris of the aircraft, which were the middle and rear sections, landed near southwest of the village of Hrabove, north of Torez (now also known as Chystiakove). [227], On 28 September 2016, the JIT gave a press conference in which it concluded that the aircraft was shot down with a 9M38 Buk missile fired from a rebel-controlled field near Pervomaisky (), a town 6km (3.7mi) south of Snizhne. [103][104] Australian officials had believed that as many as 80 bodies were still at the site,[105] but after some days of searching the international team had "found remains of only a few victims" and concluded that "the recovery effort undertaken by local authorities immediately after the crash was more thorough than initially thought. "[238] The US Department of State issued a statement saying that the United States "strongly support the decisions by the Netherlands and Australia," requesting Russia to acknowledge its involvement and to "cease its callous disinformation campaign. The Boeing 747 airliner was en route from Anchorage to Seoul, but owing to a navigational mistake made by the crew, the airliner drifted from its original planned route and flew through Soviet prohibited airspace. UCMC, 19th of July 2014", " ", " , -26", "U.S. Sees Evidence of Russian Links to Jet's Downing", "Ukrainian Defense Ministry confirms damage of Su-25 in country's east", " ' ", " -25 ", " , 25", "Ukraine conflict: Russia accused of shooting down jet", "Russia Rejects 'Absurd' Accusation Over Downed Ukrainian Jet", "Ukraine: Air Force jet downed by Russian missile", "What happened? [25] In June 2014 there were about 1,212 aircraft in service, with 340 more on order. [3]:27 By 19 July, the airline had determined the nationalities of all 298 passengers and crew. "[263][264], A number of witness statements, especially from the DPR armed forces, were presented anonymously due to fear of reprisal from Russia. Unfortunately, it seems that this is an attempt to organize a grandiose, political show, which only damages efforts to find the guilty parties. [3]:217 The American Federal Aviation Administration issued restrictions on flights over Crimea, to the south of MH17's route, and advised airlines flying over some other parts of Ukraine to "exercise extreme caution". [350], On 15 November 2014, Russia's Channel One reported a supposedly leaked spy satellite photo which showed the airliner being shot from behind by a Ukrainian Su-25 fighter jet. [33], At least twenty family groups were on the aircraft and eighty passengers were under the age of 18. [397][398], Other conspiracy theories propagated by Russian pro-government media included claims that the Ukrainians had shot down the airliner by mistake, drawing parallels to the downing of Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 in 2001 (reported in December 2014[399]); that Ukrainian air traffic controllers had deliberately redirected the flight to fly over the war zone; and that the Ukrainian government had organised the attack to discredit the pro-Russian rebels. [18] Radar data, allegedly from Russian air traffic controllers, which was leaked to a Moscow newspaper, was claimed to be proof that there were Ukrainian military jets near MH17. [78] Some were observed being placed in body bags and loaded onto trucks. Korean Air Lines flight 007, flight of a passenger jet that was shot down by Soviet air-to-air missiles on September 1, 1983, near Sakhalin Island, Russia, killing all 269 persons on board.

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