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Joint Investigation Team to Name Launch Site of Missile Used to Down MH17 Flight

© AFP 2023 / EMMANUEL DUNANDThe wrecked cockipt of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 is presented to the press during a presentation of the final report on the cause of the its crash at the Gilze Rijen airbase October 13, 2015
The wrecked cockipt of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 is presented to the press during a presentation of the final report on the cause of the its crash at the Gilze Rijen airbase October 13, 2015 - Sputnik International
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The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) that is investigating the MH17 plane crash in eastern Ukraine in 2014 is to present on Wednesday a preliminary report containing information about the type of a missile that hit the Malaysia Airlines Boeing and the exact launch site.

AMSTERDAM (Sputnik) – The paper is not expected to answer the question who was responsible for the air crash that killed 298 people on July 17, 2014. The Dutch General Prosecutor’s Office pointed out that the work would continue and the final report would be issued in late 2016 – early 2017.

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On October 13, 2015, the Dutch Security Council issued results of its own investigation. The council did not try to blame any party to the conflict in Ukraine for the plane crash – it revealed that the jet was hit by a 9M38 missile fired from a Buk missile system. The Security Council’s report only said that the missile had been launched from a 320-square-kilometer (more than 120 square miles) area in eastern Ukraine.

Russia agreed with the report’s conclusion that the missile exploded near the left side of the jet. But Russia’s arms manufacturer Almaz-Antey said that it was a proof that the missile had been launched from the Zaroshchenske region controlled by Ukrainian armed forces. According to Almaz-Antey, if the missile had been launched from Snezhnoye controlled by eastern Ukrainian pro-independence militia, it would have hit the right side of the plane.

Moscow also denied the allegations that the plane was hit by 9Н314М modification of the missile.

Despite the fact that Russian experts were not invited in JIT, they were asked for help during the investigation. The Netherlands asked for primary radar images of the Ukrainian air space obtained in the time of the crash. Russia managed to gain these data that revealed no objects that could have caused destruction of the jet.

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According to Andrei Koban, the chief of Radio-Technical Troops of the Russian Aerospace Forces, the Russian radar would have detected a missile launched east of the flight MH17 crash site. He added that technical capabilities of the Russian means of objective control did not allow concluding whether the missile had been launched from the areas south or west of the crash site. Koban added that Ukrainian air defense forces had such capabilities.

Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov echoed Koban saying that the Ukrainian authorities were hiding data about the MH17 crash as the flight had been controlled by Ukrainian radars and air defense units.

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