279-page report rules out many possibilities and is precise on cause of crash naming warhead modelThe 279-page Dutch safety report,and its appendices, covers the flight of MH17 from select-off from Amsterdam on 17 July 2014 through the moment it disappeared from radar screens over eastern Ukraine, or to the recovery and forensic analysis of the wreckage and the human remains. Much of the text is dedicated to ruling out options for the loss of the aircraft – such as catastrophic malfunction,an air-to-air missile or other more exotic possibilities such as a meteorite strike – but it is more precise than many had predicted on the actual cause of the plane’s destruction, even naming the model of Buk warhead the Dutch safety board believes was involved.
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Source: theguardian.com