- Sputnik International
World
Get the latest news from around the world, live coverage, off-beat stories, features and analysis.

Dutch Safety Board Ignores Russian Data on MH17 Crash, Pushes Own Version

© AFP 2023 / BULENT KILIC This photo taken on July 26, 2014 shows flowers, left by parents of an Australian victim of the crash, laid on a piece of the Malaysia Airlines plane MH17, near the village of Hrabove (Grabove), in the Donetsk region.
This photo taken on July 26, 2014 shows flowers, left by parents of an Australian victim of the crash, laid on a piece of the Malaysia Airlines plane MH17, near the village of Hrabove (Grabove), in the Donetsk region. - Sputnik International
Subscribe
The Dutch Safety Board is ignoring the information provided by Russia for an investigation into last year’s flight MH17 crash in eastern Ukraine as the it is only interested in pushing forward its own version of events, experts told Sputnik.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Niemoller cited a recent letter from Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), criticizing Dutch investigators over their inquiry methods into the MH17 airplane crash.

"What I know of, DSB [isn’t] interested in anything else but a Buk [missile] scenario. Which is logical, because in reality it's a Dutch/[Ukraine] investigation. They are ignoring all other information," Joost Niemoller, a Dutch journalist and author of "MH-17: The Cover-up Deal" book, said.

At the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 near Shaktyorsk - Sputnik International
MH17 Crash Used Against Russia for 'Western Political Goals From Beginning'
Malaysia’s New Straits Times newspaper said Sunday it had seen a letter by Russian agency chief Oleg Storchevoi to ICAO president Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu lambasting the Dutch Safety Board (DSB) in charge of the crash probe for going against the "principle of sequence of conclusions" in blaming the crash on a Buk missile strike, before analyzing damage to the aircraft.

Earlier in the day, the Russian Air Transport Agency confirmed it had sent the complaint.

"The report cannot arrive at a final, conclusive decision since the investigators were not at the crash scene immediately after the crash," British historian Martin McCauley told Sputnik. "They [investigators] assumed that Russian evidence would be provided to absolve Russia of any blame. Russia would not provide material which pointed to Russian involvement."

A man rides his bicycle past the wreckage of MH17, a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane - Sputnik International
Dutch Investigators 'Sloughed Off' Cooperation With Russia on MH17 Crash
The Malaysia Airlines passenger plane crashed while flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur over the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk on July 17, 2014. All 298 people on board, mostly Dutch citizens, were killed.

A final Dutch Safety Board report is due on Tuesday. Preliminary findings state that the passenger jet broke up in mid-air after being hit by several high-energy objects.

Ukraine and its Western allies have blamed the militia in the country’s east for downing the aircraft, while the Donbass forces said that they did not have weapons capable of bringing down high-altitude aircraft and blamed Kiev forces for the plane crash.

This photo taken on July 26, 2014 shows flowers, left by parents of an Australian victim of the crash, laid on a piece of the Malaysia Airlines plane MH17, near the village of Hrabove (Grabove), in the Donetsk region - Sputnik International
Russia
Russian Missile Maker Blows Up Decommissioned Boeing in MH17 Probe
Russian arms manufacturer Almaz-Antey, the manufacturer of Buk missile systems, will present on Tuesday the results of its simulation of the flight MH17 crash. Earlier this year, Almaz-Antey published the results of its inquiry into the crash, showing that the Malaysian plane was downed by a guided missile launched from a Buk-M1 system.

On Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia had repeatedly expressed its disappointment over Dutch investigators ignoring the cooperation of Russian specialists.

Newsfeed
0
To participate in the discussion
log in or register
loader
Chats
Заголовок открываемого материала