MH17: 20 months later

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At March 17 it was 20 months ago MH17 was shotdown by a BUK missile launched from an area in Eastern Ukraine south of the route of MH17.

There is no certainty who is responsible and why it happened. Was it a mistake or was the aircraft deliberately shot down?

What do we know:

1. DSB concluded the aircraft was shot down by a BUK missile with warhead 9N314M based on the bow-tie shaped fragments.
2. Two passengers will most likely never be identified
3. Dutch government is hiding facts by keeping information state secret.
4. Dutch government does not want to take the lead because the DSB and JIT investigations need to be done completely independant.
5. DSB concluded Ukraine should have closed its airspace
6. The prosecutor will make public before second half of 2016 what the exact type of BUK system was and from which location the missile was launched from
7. There are no satellite pictures (in the form of photos) available of the launch as it was cloudy
8. Raw primary radar recordings  of Ukraine and Russia are not available. In not a single case in the last ten years an accident investigation team did not have primary radar recordings.
9. We do not know what information the United Stated handed over to the prosecutor.
10. Russian press invented a lot of stories which turned out to be nonsense
11. Bellingcat released a couple of reports. It’s narrative is seen by many as the most likely scenario
12. The Dutch prosecutor accepted Bellingcat reports as usefull information
13. Dutch government mentioned that DSB report was highly praised
14. Bellingcat is criticized or ignored by a small but growing number of Dutch media
15. Russia does not agree to the conclusions in the DSB report
16. There is no information on what kind of court case will be done.
17. It will take many years before persons will be prosecuted
18. Prosecutor Westerbake has a lot of convidence the truth will be found.

I think these are the most important findings.

 

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