In a preliminary accident report of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 released by the Dutch Security Board on Tuesday, investigators said the Boeing 777 “broke up in the air probably as the result of structural damage caused by a large number of high-energy objects that penetrated the aircraft from outside.”
The report did not, however, assign blame for the fatal event or address widespread claims that the airplane was brought down by a surface-to-air missile fired by Russian-backed separatists inside Ukraine.
