‘MH17 hit by BUK missile’

PETALING JAYA: Flight MH17 was confirmed shot down in eastern Ukraine by a Russian-made anti-aircraft missile on July 17, 2014, in a final report by the Dutch Safety Board, but the 15-month investigation did not say who fired it.

Board chairman Tjibbe Joustra said the warhead was that used on a BUK missile system, which exploded less than 1m outside the cockpit, killing three crew members and breaking off the forward section of the plane.