MH17 inquiry to unveil final report into doomed flight
A Dutch-led team of international investigators unveils its final report into the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine last year. The Malaysia Airlines jetliner broke up on a routine flight between Amsterdam and Kuala Lumpur over eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014, as heavy fighting raged between Kiev's army and pro-Russian separatists. All 298 passengers and crew died when the Boeing 777 flying at some 33,000 feet (10 kilometres) was blown from the sky. A preliminary report released in September 2014 said the aircraft was hit by numerous "high-energy objects" appearing to back claims that it was struck by a missile. In August, Dutch criminal investigators said they had found fragments "probably" from a Russian-made surface-to-air BUK missile at the crash site, but indicated it was not yet clear whether the apparent missile pieces were related to the attack.
