Dutch Safety Board: Russian Missile Downed MH17

Shayla Silva

Thursday, October 15, 2015 at 08:49 PM ET

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Key Takeaways:

The Dutch Safety Board concluded that Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, killing all 298 on board, was brought down by a 9N314M-type warhead launched from a Buk missile system in eastern Ukraine.
The report detailed that the missile detonated above and to the left of the cockpit, causing the aircraft's front section to separate and the plane to disintegrate, supported by evidence from wreckage fragments and paint analysis.
The Russian company manufacturing Buk missiles has denied these conclusions, stating a different model of Buk was fired from another location, while Ukraine has called for a separate criminal investigation.

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Back in July 17, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 went down over Ukraine killing all 298 people on board the Boeing 777. On Tuesday the Dutch Safety Board released their final conclusions in the investigations citing that the crash was caused by “detonation of a 9N314M-type warhead launched from the eastern part of Ukraine using a Buk missile system.”

The report explains that MH17 progressed normally at 33,000 feet flying over the eastern part of Ukraine until 13:20 UTC when the missile detonated on the left and above the cockpit. The impact caused the cockpit and business class section to separate, and the airplane disintegrated during its descent leaving no survivors.