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.