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Mon Oct 27, 2014, 08:48 PM Oct 2014

Mystery Continues: Dutch don't rule out Flight MH17 Downed by Another Plane: Report

Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 possibly downed by another plane: report
Video Link at: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-malaysia-airlines-flight-shot-down-report-20141027-story.html

Dutch prosecutors investigating the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 believe the aircraft might have been shot down from the air but that a ground-to-air missile attack is more likely, a senior prosecutor said in a German media interview.

The Russian government has always said it has radar imagery proving the fully laden Boeing 777 was shot down by a Ukrainian military aircraft flying in its vicinity, but Western officials have never publicly accepted this scenario.

In an interview published by German news-magazine Der Spiegel on Monday, prosecutor Fred Westerbeke said the Dutch would ask Moscow to provide the information that had led them to believe a Ukrainian aircraft was nearby.

"Based on the information available, a shooting-down by a ground-to-air missile is the most likely scenario, but we aren't closing our eyes to the possibility that it could have happened differently," Der Spiegel quoted him as saying.

"We are preparing a request to Moscow for information ... including the radar data with which the Russians wanted to prove that a Ukrainian military jet was nearby," he added.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-malaysia-airlines-flight-shot-down-report-20141027-story.html

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