Uneasy Ukrainian Ambassador Questioned by Malaysians about missing ATC recordings
(Blogpost DeepResource) Aug. 10, 2014 – It looks like Malaysia still has an independent press that dares to ask critical questions, unlike the coward Western media, that all sing to the tune of Washington. Here is the Ukrainian ambassador to Malaysia whose body language expresses a state of insecurity and uneasiness.
MH17: Status of Ukrainian tapes still in question – Interview August 7, 2014
NewStraitsTimes: Was MH17 Finished Off With A Guns Kill?
EXPERTS are looking at the possibility that Malaysia flight MH17 was shot down by an air-to-air missile fired from a Sukhoi Su-25 fighter. Sources also believe that as the crippled jetliner spiralled out of control, the Su-25 finished it off with its 30mm cannon. This they say, would explain the different fragmentation patterns on the airliner’s fuselage. [Issue Wednesday August 6, 2014]
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New Straits Times: Was MH17 Finished Off With A Guns Kill?
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New Straits Times: Emerging theory: Missile, cannon brought down Malaysian passenger airliner
NST Online: Video of crash site with parts of the fusilage
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NST Online: Video of crash site with parts of the fusilage filmed – August 4, 2014
Ukraine Amb Humennyi On Whereabouts ATC Tapes
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Not giving straight answers only makes the matter murkier …
Malaysia wants the ‘missing’ Ukrainian ATC tapes
KUALA LUMPUR (New Straits Times) Aug. 8, 2014 – Ukraine has denied that its State Security Service (SBU) had seized the air-to-ground transmission tapes between its air traffic controllers and Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 on the day the jetliner was shot down.
Its ambassador to Malaysia Ihor Humennyi, in an exclusive interview with the New Straits Times, said that reports alleging that the SBU had seized the recordings had not been independently verified or confirmed by Kiev.
“There is no proof or any evidence that the tapes were confiscated by the SBU. I only read this in the newspapers.”
Interview Ukrainian Ambassador Ihor Humennyi on MH17: Status of Ukrainian tapes still in question.
Almost immediately after the shootdown, several news agencies, including the British Broadcasting Corporation, carried reports saying that Ukraine’s SBU security service had confiscated recordings of conversations between Ukrainian air traffic control officers and the crew of the doomed airliner.
If indeed the SBU had not seized the tapes, then where are the air-to-ground communications tapes between MH17 and the ATC? When asked this, Humennyi said he did not have the answers.
Asked if the tapes had been handed over to the investigators, Humennyi said: “We don’t have any information that it had not been given to the investigation team or that it was not received by the (team of international) investigators.”
Humennyi said that if a formal request was made by Malaysia or the international investigation team, Ukraine would extend its cooperation. At one point, Humennyi seemed to question the significance of the ATC tapes, saying that “it is just the same as the flight data and cockpit voice recorders”.
- ○ Data Cockpit Voice Recorder MH17 Downloaded – July 24, 2014
○ Preliminary report on MH17 investigations out next week, says Malysian Transport Minister
Cross-posted from my recent diary – Dutch PM Rutte Abruptly Calls-off MH-17 Recovery Mission.
