First MH17 crash report to be released ‘in weeks’, say Dutch investigators

Dutch air crash investigators said today they expect to release an initial report into what brought down Flight MH17 over Ukraine with the loss of 298 lives “in a few weeks”.

There were 193 Dutch citizens aboard the Malaysia Airlines 777 when it exploded over strife-torn eastern Ukraine on July 17 and the Dutch are in charge of victim identification and probing the cause of the disaster.

The West has accused pro-Russian separatists of shooting down the jet with a missile supplied by Russia. Moscow has accused Ukraine of shooting it down.

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