The
Dutch Safety Board is ignoring the information provided by Russia for an
investigation into last year’s flight MH17 crash in eastern Ukraine as the it
is only interested in pushing forward its own version of events, experts told
Sputnik.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Niemoller cited a recent letter from Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), criticizing Dutch investigators over their inquiry methods into the MH17 airplane crash.
"What I know of, DSB [isn’t]
interested in anything else but a Buk [missile] scenario. Which is
logical, because in reality it's a Dutch/[Ukraine] investigation. They are
ignoring all other information," Joost Niemoller, a Dutch journalist and
author of "MH-17: The Cover-up Deal" book, said.
Malaysia’s New Straits Times newspaper said Sunday it
had seen a letter by Russian agency chief Oleg Storchevoi to ICAO
president Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu lambasting the Dutch Safety Board (DSB)
in charge of the crash probe for going against the
"principle of sequence of conclusions" in blaming the
crash on a Buk missile strike, before analyzing damage to the
aircraft.
Earlier in the day, the Russian Air Transport
Agency confirmed it had sent the complaint.
"The report cannot arrive at a final,
conclusive decision since the investigators were not at the crash
scene immediately after the crash," British historian Martin McCauley
told Sputnik. "They [investigators] assumed that Russian evidence would be
provided to absolve Russia of any blame. Russia would not provide
material which pointed to Russian involvement."
The Malaysia Airlines passenger plane crashed while
flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur over the eastern Ukrainian
region of Donetsk on July 17, 2014. All 298 people on board,
mostly Dutch citizens, were killed.
A final Dutch Safety Board report is due on Tuesday. Preliminary findings state that the passenger jet broke up in mid-air after being hit by several high-energy objects.
Ukraine and its Western allies have blamed the militia
in the country’s east for downing the aircraft, while the Donbass
forces said that they did not have weapons capable of bringing
down high-altitude aircraft and blamed Kiev forces for the plane
crash.
Russian arms manufacturer Almaz-Antey, the manufacturer
of Buk missile systems, will present on Tuesday the results
of its simulation of the flight MH17 crash. Earlier this year,
Almaz-Antey published the results of its inquiry into the crash,
showing that the Malaysian plane was downed by a guided missile launched
from a Buk-M1 system.
On Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia
had repeatedly expressed its disappointment over Dutch investigators
ignoring the cooperation of Russian specialists.
Source: Sputnik News 12-10-2015
