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Dutch investigators will publish final report about MH17 crash on October 13

Dutch authorities have announced that the full version of the long-awaited final report on the investigation into Flight MH17 will be published on October 13.

The Dutch Safety Board has been investigating the cause of the crash of Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014. A Joint Investigation Team, comprised of investigators from Malaysia, Belgium, Australia, Ukraine, and the Netherlands, has been working on the criminal investigation. The two groups share their information.

The statement on the website of the Dutch Safety Board says that the relatives of those who died in the crash will be informed of the investigation results in advance. 

At a later date, the Dutch Safety Board will release further information about the location and the way in which the reports will be made available to the public and media on October 13, 2015.

Dutch Safety Board

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 crashed on July 17, 2014, in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region. All 298 people onboard were killed.

CNN has claimed that the Dutch report puts responsibility for the crash on the separatists in eastern Ukraine. According to CNN, the Dutch report states that a surface-to-air missile launched a rocket at the passenger airplane from separatist-controlled territory.

In March 2015, Dutch journalist Jeroen Akkermans, from RTL News, announced that he found a fragment of what looks like a Buk surface-to-air missile part at the site of the crash in November 2014. He promised to hand over the parts to investigators.

Identifying of the type of Buk missile which may have caused the MH17 crash can point to the group responsible for the crash. Only Russia owns Buk M1-2 missiles, while Ukraine owns Buk M1 series missiles.

Russian authorities have claimed that their investigations show the plane was shot down by an air-to-air missile from a Ukrainian Su-25 fighter jet.

Earlier, Dutch journalists appealed to the Dutch government under the Freedom of Information Act, calling on authorities to declassify documents on the actions of the Netherlands in the aftermath of the 2014 Flight MH17 crash. The Dutch government refused by stating that while they recognize the enormous importance of this information for the public, they cannot publish the information yet.

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