Part of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 at the crash site in the village of Hrabove (Grabovo), some 80 km east of Donetsk.
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Damage found on wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 indicates there were impacts from a large number of high-energy objects from outside the aircraft, according to a Dutch Safety Board accident report.
The report also says that three other airliners were in the area when MH17 crashed; one of them, a Boeing 777, was following MH17 on the same track and altitude.
The aircraft investigators stop short of saying what hit the Boeing 777-200ER over eastern Ukraine July 17. But the conclusions drawn by the safety board, mainly from photographs and other observations, support the theory the aircraft was shot down by a surface-to-air missile.
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The safety board believes MH17 was hit from the outside as “a number of pieces contained multiple holes and indentations.” Among them was a piece of skin from below the left cockpit window. The report also says the material around the holes was deformed in ways “consistent with being punctured by high-energy objects. The characteristics of the material deformation around the puncture holes appear to indicated that the objects originated from outside the fuselage.”
MH17 crashed July 17 during a scheduled flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. All 298 people on board were killed. The Ukrainian National Bureau of Air Accident Investigations (NBAAI) delegated the investigation task to its Dutch counterpart. The Netherlands is a party to the investigation because of the large number of Dutch victims—193 of the 298 people on board—and because the aircraft took off from Amsterdam.
The report has come out significantly later than the 30 days after an aircraft accident as defined in ICAO Annex 13, but the Dutch Safety Board says the fact that the wreckage is located in an area of intense fighting between Ukrainian forces and rebels has made its efforts a lot more difficult. Access to the site has been very limited and forensic examination of the wreckage can only take place once it is recovered. Photographs taken on site have served as a primary source of information for the investigators, along with data from the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder (FDR) – both of which have been found intact.
According to the investigators, the distribution of pieces of the aircraft over a large area (10 km by 5 km) “indicates that the aircraft broke up in the air.” Given that the forward part of the fuselage was found closest to the last position as saved on the FDR, they conclude that it broke off first. But the center and aft part of the aircraft “continued in a down and forward trajectory before breaking up.”
The aircraft was airworthy on departure from Amsterdam and analysis of FDR data showed that engine parameters were “consistent with normal operation during the flight. No engine or aircraft system warnings or cautions were detected. No technical malfunctions or warnings in relation to the event were found.”
The aircraft had taken off from Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport at 10:31 a.m. UTC. According to the flight plan, MH17 would initially climb to flight level 330 (33,000 ft.) until it reached waypoint PEKIT, which is on the border between the Kiev and Dnipropetrovsk flight information regions (FIR). The flight plan assumed the aircraft would climb to FL350 at PEKIT. But when Dnipro Control asked whether MH17 was able to climb to that level, the crew told controllers it was unable to comply. Dnipro Control therefore asked another Boeing 777 that was following MH17 on the same track and same altitude to climb to FL350, because it was flying faster. The airline was not identified. Two more aircraft were flying in the region, the closest around 30km away from the last position of MH17.
MH17 asked to deviate about 20 nautical miles from the track to avoid weather. On approval from Dnipro Control, MH17 turned left of airway L980. It was about 3.6 nautical miles north of the centerline at 13:19:53 UTC. Controllers asked the crew to proceed directly to waypoint RND to avoid other traffic. MH17 acknowledged the request six seconds later. Another four seconds later, Dnipro Control cleared MH17 to waypoint TIKNA after RND, but received no reply.
Part of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 at the crash site in the village of Hrabove (Grabovo), some 80 km east of Donetsk.
Alexander KHUDOTEPLY/AFP/Getty Images
Damage found on wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 indicates there were impacts from a large number of high-energy objects from outside the aircraft, according to a Dutch Safety Board accident report.
The report also says that three other airliners were in the area when MH17 crashed; one of them, a Boeing 777, was following MH17 on the same track and altitude.
The aircraft investigators stop short of saying what hit the Boeing 777-200ER over eastern Ukraine July 17. But the conclusions drawn by the safety board, mainly from photographs and other observations, support the theory the aircraft was shot down by a surface-to-air missile.
The type of missile believed to have been used intentionally does not hit the target; it explodes close to it, dispersing shrapnel to cause the widest damage possible.Selezionare questa frase
per l'editor citato articolo
The safety board believes MH17 was hit from the outside as “a number of pieces contained multiple holes and indentations.” Among them was a piece of skin from below the left cockpit window. The report also says the material around the holes was deformed in ways “consistent with being punctured by high-energy objects. The characteristics of the material deformation around the puncture holes appear to indicated that the objects originated from outside the fuselage.”
MH17 crashed July 17 during a scheduled flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. All 298 people on board were killed. The Ukrainian National Bureau of Air Accident Investigations (NBAAI) delegated the investigation task to its Dutch counterpart. The Netherlands is a party to the investigation because of the large number of Dutch victims—193 of the 298 people on board—and because the aircraft took off from Amsterdam.
The report has come out significantly later than the 30 days after an aircraft accident as defined in ICAO Annex 13, but the Dutch Safety Board says the fact that the wreckage is located in an area of intense fighting between Ukrainian forces and rebels has made its efforts a lot more difficult. Access to the site has been very limited and forensic examination of the wreckage can only take place once it is recovered. Photographs taken on site have served as a primary source of information for the investigators, along with data from the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder (FDR) – both of which have been found intact.
According to the investigators, the distribution of pieces of the aircraft over a large area (10 km by 5 km) “indicates that the aircraft broke up in the air.” Given that the forward part of the fuselage was found closest to the last position as saved on the FDR, they conclude that it broke off first. But the center and aft part of the aircraft “continued in a down and forward trajectory before breaking up.”
The aircraft was airworthy on departure from Amsterdam and analysis of FDR data showed that engine parameters were “consistent with normal operation during the flight. No engine or aircraft system warnings or cautions were detected. No technical malfunctions or warnings in relation to the event were found.”
The aircraft had taken off from Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport at 10:31 a.m. UTC. According to the flight plan, MH17 would initially climb to flight level 330 (33,000 ft.) until it reached waypoint PEKIT, which is on the border between the Kiev and Dnipropetrovsk flight information regions (FIR). The flight plan assumed the aircraft would climb to FL350 at PEKIT. But when Dnipro Control asked whether MH17 was able to climb to that level, the crew told controllers it was unable to comply. Dnipro Control therefore asked another Boeing 777 that was following MH17 on the same track and same altitude to climb to FL350, because it was flying faster. The airline was not identified. Two more aircraft were flying in the region, the closest around 30km away from the last position of MH17.
MH17 asked to deviate about 20 nautical miles from the track to avoid weather. On approval from Dnipro Control, MH17 turned left of airway L980. It was about 3.6 nautical miles north of the centerline at 13:19:53 UTC. Controllers asked the crew to proceed directly to waypoint RND to avoid other traffic. MH17 acknowledged the request six seconds later. Another four seconds later, Dnipro Control cleared MH17 to waypoint TIKNA after RND, but received no reply.
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