MH17 Airline Disaster in Ukraine: Dutch Report is In; What They Say brought the Plane Down

Aimee Herd : Oct 13, 2015
BBC News

"Investigators could not determine at which point the occupants died, the report says, adding that it was not able to rule out possibility of some remaining conscious for some time during the one-and-a-half minutes it took for the plane to crash." -BBC News

The final report from the Dutch Safety Board regarding the crash of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 in July of 2014 in eastern Ukraine was announced on Tuesday morning. (Screengrab via BBC News)

According to BBC News, the report found that a Russian-made Buk missile, exploding near the cockpit above the plane caused the Boeing 777 to fall from the sky, killing 298 people.

The Dutch report did not include who may have fired the missile, however, it was known that pro-Russian separatists were in the area at the time of the crash.