Local time 12:17pm CET – report due in exactly one hour.
[UPDATE:] MH-17 Conclusions
- Controversy about warhead will be found in Appendix L: About the Investigation.
- Important end conclusion DSB: could not pin-point the exact location from where the BUK missile was launched. The Dutch Safety Board did NOT accept the location indicated by the State of Ukraine. The global area had the size of 320 sq.km.
- DSB puts blame on the sovereign state of Ukraine, the air space above conflict zone of eastern area should heve been closed for civilan flights.
Perhaps the utter bs of propaganda blaming Putin for the MH-17 crash will stop. What will the EU do about the imposed sanctions on Russia? The final report DSB does not put blame on Russia as the separate criminal investigation by JIT will continue its investigation and needs more forensic evidence.
Dutch premier Rutte, who had been a leading voice of the Atlanticists, was completely silent after reading the report.
The same can be said for the cabal in Kiev, Ukraine and the third loud voice PM Abbott of Australia was already silenced by his own party in his overthrow last month.
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Publication of the MH17 reports: overview | Dutch Safety Board (DSB) |
On Tuesday 13 October 2015 the Dutch Safety Board will publish its reports on the investigation into the crash of flight MH17. Below, we provide an overview of the course of events.
- At 11.00 a.m. surviving relatives of the victims will first be informed about the results of the investigation by Tjibbe Joustra, chairman of the Dutch Safety Board, in The Hague.
- At exactly 1.15 p.m. the chairman of the Dutch Safety Board will present the investigation to the media at Gilze-Rijen air base. After this presentation, the reports will be published (around 1.45 p.m.).
- At 4.00 p.m. the chairman of the Dutch Safety Board will be elucidating the investigation during a closed meeting with the Dutch House of Representatives in The Hague.
- After the official publication of the report on Tuesday afternoon, Board members Erwin Muller and Marjolein van Asselt will be informing approximately 75 embassies about the investigation in The Hague.
- The reports focus on four themes: the causes of the crash, the issue of flying over conflict areas, the reasons why Dutch surviving relatives had to wait for two to four days for confirmation from the Dutch authorities that their loved ones had been on the aeroplane, and lastly the question to what extent the occupants of flight MH17 consciously experienced the crash.
- The investigation was not concerned with question of blame or liability. Answering those question is a matter for the criminal investigation. [Joint Investigation Team – JIT under European guidance but under Ukrainian jurisdiction and law – a secret side letter]
- During the presentation of the investigation at Gilze-Rijen air base the reconstruction will be shown that the Dutch Safety Board made of part of the aircraft. Using recovered pieces of wreckage, part of the cockpit and business class section were reconstructed. The Dutch Safety Board reconstructed the part of the aeroplane that was relevant to the investigation.
- On Tuesday the Dutch Safety Board will also be presenting a video animation explaining the findings and conclusions of the investigation.
- English is the language used in international aviation investigation. The reports on flight MH17 will be published in English as well as in Dutch.
It is common practice for the Dutch Safety Board to include a rationale for its investigations in its reports. For the publication of the MH17 reports the Board has opted not to do so for each report individually, but instead to provide a single document covering all of the various investigations. This document, entitled About the Investigation, will be published simultaneously with the reports. On Tuesday 13 October 2015 the Dutch Safety Board will publish its reports on the investigation into the crash of flight MH17. Below, we provide an overview of the course of events.
Russian criticism on Dutch report: Buk manufacturer Almaz-Antey reports on MH17
The Almaz-Antey report says MH17 was shot down by an older BUK 9M38 missile. The last BUK 9M38 missile was produced in the Soviet Union in 1986, and the expiration period of such a missile is 25 years, including all possible prolongations.
After the expiration date, the use of such missiles is prohibited and they must be decommissioned, Almaz-Antey reps said.
The BUK system’s manufacturer Almaz-Antey releases its report on last year’s MH17 crash over eastern Ukraine and is set to show a video of simulated BUK missile explosion right next to a pilot’s cockpit.
“The main method of proof that the airplane was downed from the direction of Snezhnoye was the reenactment of the process and an explanation of the area of damage to the outer body of the aircraft. This can fully show that, actually, if the missile was on a head-on course, specific areas would be damaged, but this reenactment in particular does not completely explain the actual angle of approach of the destructive elements,” Novikov told journalists.
