17 July 2014 of the year, Five years ago, a plane crash occurred in the east of the Donetsk region. The Boeing 777-200ER aircraft of the Malaysian airline Malaysia Airlines followed the route "Amsterdam - Kuala Lumpur". Across 2 hours 49 minutes after takeoff, the plane was hit by a rocket, fired from the Buk air defense system. Everyone died in the crash 298 human, on board: 283 passenger and 15 crew. Still not installed, who shot down the Malaysian airliner.
Aircraft, crew and passengers
Boeing 777-200ER was produced at the Boeing plant in Everett (Washington, USA) at 1997 year. 29 July of the same year, it was transferred to the Malaysian airline Malaysia Airlines. Therefore, the crew of the aircraft was represented by citizens of Malaysia.
By the time of the crash, the plane had been flying for seventeen years., done 11 434 takeoff-landing cycle, was flown 75 322 o'clock. The liner passed the technical check for the last time 11 July 2014 of the year, but she did not reveal any problems in the operation of the aircraft.
16 July 2014 of the year, the aircraft performed a daily flight MH16 Kuala Lumpur - Amsterdam, Arriving at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol 04:23. AT 10:14 the aircraft began the return flight MH17 Amsterdam - Kuala Lumpur and 10:31 took off from the runway at Schiphol Airport. I had to fly, including, and over the territory of Ukraine, where by this time the civil war in the Donbass was already in full swing.
The total crew of the aircraft consisted of 15 human. The commander of the main crew of the aircraft was 44-year-old Eugene Cho Jin Leong., co-pilot - 26-year-old Muhamad Firdaus Abdul Rahim. The replacement crew was commanded by 49-year-old Van Amran Van Hassin., the co-pilot was 29-year-old Ahmad Hakimi Hanapi. They were all experienced pilots with many thousands of hours flown.. Besides, were on the plane 11 flight attendants - 3 steward and 8 flight attendants - all of them were also citizens of Malaysia.
This ill-fated flight on a Boeing flew 283 passenger. Most of the passengers were citizens of the Netherlands, as the plane took off from Amsterdam. Except the Dutch, Malaysian citizens were flying on a Boeing, Australia, Indonesia, Great Britain, Germany, Belgium, Philippines, Canada, Romania and New Zealand.
Tragedy in the sky over Donbass
AT 13:20 UTC plane, flying by that time over the eastern part of the Donbass, was hit by a rocket. Her warhead exploded to the left of the aircraft, in the cockpit area, after which the plane began to disintegrate in the air. The cockpit and half of the business class cabin almost immediately broke off and fell to the ground, and the rest of the aircraft was in the air for some time, flying yet 8,5 kilometers to the east. From the moment of defeat to the fall to the ground of the last parts of the aircraft, only about one and a half minutes passed..
Aircraft, more precisely, its fragments, fell near the village of Grabovo near the city of Torez, Donetsk region. The wreckage was scattered over a territory with a total area of more than 15 square kilometers. All people, on board the aircraft, killing.
In terms of the number of deaths, the disaster in the Donetsk region became the largest after the events 11 September 2001 of the year. She also entered the top ten largest aviation accidents in the history of aeronautics..
The National Bureau for the Investigation of Aviation Accidents and Incidents with Civil Aircraft of Ukraine received information about the disappearance of a Boeing 777-200 aircraft with registration number 9M-MRD from the radar screens in the morning 18 July 2014 of the year. Notices of the incident were sent to Malaysia as the country of registration and operation of the Boeing., United States of America as a country - developer, as well as the Netherlands and Australia, citizens who died in a plane crash.
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Search work has begun on the ground. As the plane crashed in the zone, under the control of the Donetsk militias, the leadership of the Donetsk People's Republic allowed Ukrainian specialists to participate in the search operation.
21 July 2014 g. train with bodies 282 of the dead went from the Torez railway station to Kharkiv. It was decided to carry out the procedure for identifying the bodies of the dead already in the Netherlands. Yet 16 bodies were under the wreckage of the fuselage and removed them only after, how the whole search operation was completed. The Netherlands took the lead in investigating all the circumstances of the tragedy. The flight recorders were handed over by representatives of the DPR to the authorities of Malaysia, and a, in its turn, handed over to the Netherlands.
The plane was shot down by a rocket
The investigation into all the circumstances of the disaster took more than a year.. Initially, different versions of what happened were put forward., however, in the end, the final conclusion was made - the plane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. 13 October 2015 of the year Dutch Safety Board (DSB) presented the final version of the report of the investigation into the circumstances of the disaster. Aircraft wreckage and debris analysis, extracted from the bodies of passengers and crew members of the liner, showed, that the plane was shot down by a missile with a 9N314M warhead. Such warheads are equipped with 9M38 and 9M38M1 missiles. These missiles are used as part of the Buk anti-aircraft missile systems., "Buk-M1" and "Buk-M1-2".
The second part of the report concluded, that Ukrainian services, in charge of air traffic management, not adequately considered all the risks, which could accompany the flight of a civil aircraft over the war zone in the Donbass.
The results of the investigation caused a negative reaction both in Ukraine, as well as in Russia. President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko hastened to refute the accusations against the Ukrainian air services, stressing, that they already closed the airspace to a height 9725 meters and did not assume, above this mark it is also dangerous to fly.
In the Russian Federation, the results of the Dutch investigation were considered biased and tendentious. Information has been published, that the missile was launched from the territory, which at that moment was under the control of non-DPR militias, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Deputy Head of the Federal Air Transport Agency Oleg Storchevoi, speaking 14 October 2015 of the year at the press conference, called the report of the Dutch side fabricated, performed in the "technique of fitting facts to predetermined conclusions".
14 January 2016 year, they sent a letter to the Dutch Safety Board criticizing the report, however, the Dutch authorities responded, that this letter does not contain any new or valuable information. meanwhile, practically from the very beginning of the investigation, the circumstance, that Malaysia was admitted to the results of the investigation only a few months later. But after all, Malaysia was the country of registration and operation of the crashed aircraft, and the crew, and a significant part of the passengers were citizens of this country.
In turn, the United States and the EU countries fully supported the report of the Netherlands, because he fit perfectly into their paradigm of treating Russia as a country, allegedly unleashing a war in the Donbass and posing a threat to Ukraine, and the world in general.
The Dutch Foreign Ministry and the Australian Foreign Ministry officially blamed the disaster on Russia. Formed after the disaster, the international Joint Investigation Team (Joint Investigation Team, Industry Ministers), including representatives from the Netherlands, Belgium, Australia and Ukraine (only in autumn 2014 year Malaysia was admitted to it) He stated, that the liner was hit by a missile, which belonged to the 53rd anti-aircraft missile brigade of the RF Armed Forces, stationed in the Kursk region. But there is real evidence for this, of course, did not have.
As for Ukraine, then its president, Petro Poroshenko, almost immediately after the disaster, accused the militia of Donbass and the Russian special services of being involved in it. The Security Service of Ukraine opened a criminal case in connection with the incident under article 258 Criminal Code of Ukraine (terrorist act). Naturally, that the West immediately took advantage of the disaster in the Donbass, to introduce additional economic sanctions against the Russian Federation.
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In its turn, Alexander Boroday, who then held the post of Prime Minister of the DPR, He stated, that the militias are not armed with such anti-aircraft missile systems, from which it would be possible to shoot down such a high-flying aircraft.
The representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov, told, the rocket, which got into the liner, really was made on the territory of modern Russia, but back in Soviet times, and after the collapse of the USSR, the rocket ended up on the territory of Ukraine. Russian anti-aircraft missile systems "Buk-M1-2", according to a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense, did not cross the border between the Russian Federation and Ukraine.
Five years later. The West continues to blame Russia, Malaysia doubts
In June 2019 it became known, that the Ukrainian side also appointed "suspects" in organizing a missile attack on the liner. This is Igor Girkin (shooters), who at that time was the Minister of Defense of the Donetsk Republic, Sergey Dubinsky, DPR intelligence chief, commander of the intelligence unit of the GRU DPR Leonid Kharchenko and lieutenant colonel of the reserve of the Russian army Oleg Pulatov.
All of the above, except Kharchenko, are citizens of the Russian Federation. However, there is also information about, that the Ukrainian authorities will not demand the extradition of the listed citizens, And this circumstance in itself raises big questions.. In fact, it is completely unprofitable for Kyiv to have a public trial of those, who in Ukraine were "appointed" as the perpetrators of the tragedy. After all, any trial can shed light on the true causes of the crash of the liner.. No wonder the Dutch authorities still do not agree to publish the results of the investigation of the disaster.
The position of the Malaysian leadership is very interesting in this context.. Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad (photo) in June 2019 , stated, that Malaysia is very disappointed with the attempts of Western countries to put all the blame for what happened on the Russian Federation and use the disaster for political purposes.
According to the Prime Minister of Malaysia, up to the present time, the world has only "rumors" regarding the imaginary involvement of Russia in this tragic event. As for the evidence, then the West does not provide them, but accusations against Moscow rained down even before the start of an investigation into all the circumstances of the disaster.
They blame Russia, but where is the evidence? We know, the rocket, who shot down the plane, was Russian type, but it could also be made in Ukraine. Looks like, idea focused on, to try to put the blame on the Russians,
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad said.
These words of the head of government of that country, who owned the downed Boeing, and more than all other countries is interested in an objective investigation of what happened, very revealing, as well as the, that Malaysia is still not allowed to decrypt the "black boxes" of the aircraft.
It is beneficial for the West to expose Russia as the direct culprit of the disaster, and for this in Amsterdam, Brussels, Washington, London ready to go for anything, including outright falsification of evidence, and suppressing the facts.
Ilya Polonsky
