The Dutch Safety Board is to publish a final report on why Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 broke up over Ukraine in 2014, killing all 298 on board.<\/p>\n
Preliminary findings say it was hit by “high-energy objects from outside the aircraft”, fuelling speculation that a surface-to-air missile was responsible.<\/p>\n
The West and Ukraine say Russian-backed rebels brought down the Boeing 777, while Russia blames Ukraine. But the report will not say who was to blame.
\nMoscow is to issue its own report.<\/p>\n
The plane – flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur – crashed in rebel-held eastern Ukraine on 17 July 2014 at the height of the conflict between government troops and the pro-Russian separatists.<\/p>\n
There were 193 Dutch nationals among the victims.<\/p>\n
Four questions
\nThe Dutch Safety Board is expected to present its findings first to the victims’ families and relatives and then to reporters at the Gilze-Rijen military base.
\nThe board will also show parts of the aircraft that have been brought back from the rebel-held Donetsk region and reconstructed.<\/p>\n
The report will look at four key issues:<\/p>\n
However, the report will not directly address the issue of who was responsible for the disaster.<\/p>\n
This is because the board does not have the authority to apportion blame under the rules governing international flight crash investigations.<\/p>\n
A separate Dutch-led criminal investigation is still going on, and its findings are expected to be published in several months’ time.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors have suggested that the aircraft was most likely brought down by a Buk surface-to-air missile. In August, they said they were investigating fragments “possibly originating from a Buk”.<\/p>\n
The government in Ukraine and several Western officials have said the missile was brought from Russia and launched from the rebel-held part of Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Russia denies the accusations, saying the plane was shot down by either a surface-to-air missile fired by Ukrainian forces or a Ukrainian fighter jet.<\/p>\n
The government in Kiev rejects these claims as groundless.<\/p>\n
In July, Russia vetoed a draft resolution at the UN Security Council to set up an international tribunal into the MH17 air disaster.<\/p>\n
President Vladimir Putin said at the time the establishment of such a tribunal would be “premature” and “counter-productive”.<\/p>\n
Before the Dutch report is released on Tuesday, Russia’s state arms producer Almaz-Antey – which makes Buk missiles – is expected to announce the results of its own investigation into the crash.<\/p>\n
Senior Russian government officials have said the Dutch investigators have not been co-operating with Russian experts.<\/p>\n
“A series of facts (about the shooting down) that were presented by Russia seem have not been taken into consideration – for reasons that we do not understand,” Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for President Vladimir Putin, said on Monday.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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