Malaysian Jet Over Ukraine Was Downed by ‘High-Energy Objects,’ Dutch Investigators Say

NYT ^ | SEPT. 9, 2014 | ANDREW HIGGINS and NICOLA CLARK

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BRUSSELS — Eight weeks after a Malaysia Airlines plane disintegrated over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people aboard and triggering a frenzy of East-West finger-pointing, investigators, in their first account of the calamity on Tuesday, released evidence consistent with an attack by a surface-to-air missile but shed no clear light on who was responsible.

A preliminary report issued in The Hague by the Dutch Safety Board, which is leading an international effort to get to the bottom of the tragedy, gave some indirect support to assertions by the United States and Ukraine that pro-Russian rebels shot down the aircraft with an SA-11, or Buk, surface-to-air missile.

Its findings also debunked several theories circulated by Russian media and on the Internet, including reports that, moments before the disaster, the pilots of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 reported to air traffic controllers that they were being tailed by a Ukrainian military jet.

The release of the preliminary findings should also calm repeated questions by Russian officials and media in recent weeks about why, after an initial blaze of publicity and accusations, the fate of Flight 17 had lost the West’s attention, a shift of interest they have often presented as evidence of some sort of cover up.

Yet so circumspect and noncommittal was the Dutch report that “everyone will find something here to support their case,” Reed Foster, a defense analyst at IHS Jane’s in London, said. “It is a very vanilla account of a very tragic event.”

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A chart of air traffic in the area presented by the Dutch on Tuesday, however, indicated that what the Russians identified as a Ukrainian military plane was in fact a commercial airliner. The chart featured three commercial airliners near Flight 17 but no military aircraft.

[ourworldawry]

“people seeing chemtrails instead of clouds make me question the future of humanity.”

However, NOT seeing them, makes YOUR future questionable.

[cynwoody]

Those mealy-mouthed Dutch are sweating (wrong verb, LOL!) their utility bills this upcoming winter.

Fact is, the Donbas rebels shot down MH17, by accident. They thought they had shot down another of Kiev's AN-26 transports (as they had done the previous Monday) and posted a boast to that effect on Facebook. Then they sent troops to the scene to round up any crew who might have bailed out (two had bailed out the previous Monday). But they took down their boast when the troops on the ground sent back word that nobody had bailed out and the fields were strewn with dead bodies bearing foreign passports.

http://patdollard.com/2014/07/exposed-what-really-happened-ukraine-rebel-leader-posts-facebook-boast-about-shooting-down-ukraine-plane-deletes-it-when-he-realizes-it-was-mh17/