mh17 tragedy

Behind the drowning of Malaysian Airlines MH-17

About the flight. . .

• Malaysian Airlines flight 17 otherwise known as MH-17/MAS17 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.

• Flight 17 was a Boeing 777-2H6ER and carried a total of 298 peoples including 283 passengers and 15 crew members on the day of incident.

• Among the passengers were delegates en route to the 20th International AIDS Conference including Joep Lange former president of International AIDS society.

• The plane also carried Dutch senator Willem Witteveen, Australian author Liam Davison and Malaysian actress Shuba Jay.

• At least twenty family groups were on board the aircraft, and eighty of the passengers were children.

Passengers distribution according to Nationality

NetherlandsIndonesiaMalaysiaUnited KingdomGermanyPhilippinesNew ZelandAustraliaCrew

How sophisticated was the missile ?

• SA-11 can travel tens of thousands of feet into the air.

• It was packed with 46 pounds of explosives.

• SHRAPNEL MISSILE- denotes about 100-300 feet away the target, creates a shrapnel cloud.

The Crash. . . . . .

• The flight lost contact near Hrabove in Donetsk Oblast , Ukraine, about 50 km from Ukraine – Russia border and crashed near Torez.

• The aircraft is believed to have been brought down by a Buk surface-to-air missile.

• Ukraine and the western governments believe that it had been fired from the territory controlled by pro-Russian separatists.

• Russia claims that the airliner was brought down by two Ukrainian fighter jets which were shot down by the rebels near the crash site.

• All 298 passengers and crew were killed in the tragedy.

• MH-17 is the deadliest airliner shootdown in history.

• The crash was Malaysia Airlines worst incident and its second of the year, after the disappearance of flight 370(MH-370).

Causes of the conflicts

• 2014 Crimean crisis is on of the major factor, it involves the independence of Crimean Peninsula, and a conflict between Ukraine and Russia over its control.

• Pro-Russian forces gradually began to take control over the Crime as soon after the current government was dissolved and Russia along with few other countries considered it illegitimate.

• Crimean crisis was an outcome of the Ukrainian Revolution, also a referendum on whether to join Russia had an official turnout to be affirmative which later by UN General Assembly was declared illegal.

• Ukraine and many western governments suggest that Russian president Vladimir Putin is at the centre of this and also the crash was a part of his plans to extend Russia.

•Russia suggests that the Ukrainian troops shot down the plane as they misjudged it for Vladimir Putin’s plane.

• Many of the western government authorities believe that the sophisticated missile that hit MH-17 could only be supplied by the Russian government.

• Some reports may also suggest that plane was shot because of an error of untrained rebels while practicing with the sophisticated missile system.

Why MH-17 was shot?

Impact and Aftermath• Immediately following the incident Ukraine closed all routes in the Eastern Ukraine airspace at all altitudes.

• Airlines including Aeroflot, Transaero, Air France, Turkish Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, Lufthansa and S7 Airlines announced their intentions to instruct pilots to bypass Ukraine airspace,

• Malaysian Airlines decided to retire flight number MH-17, also their shares dropped by 16%.

• There are reports suggesting the possessions of the corpses have been removed and the evidence being destroyed.

Investigation …..International team of forensic experts.

Investigators from Netherlands, Germany and many other countries.

Investigators assembled at Kharkiv.

CONCLUSION

Russian Defense Ministry, Interfax asked Washington to release the satellite imagery.

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