The collapse of the "Boeing" in the Donbas. Five years have passed, but the West is hiding the truth.
Airplane, crew and passengers
The Boeing 777-200ER was released at the Boeing plant in Everett (WA, USA) in 1997. 29 July the same year, he was transferred to the Malaysian airline Malaysia Airlines. Therefore, the crew of the aircraft was represented by Malaysian citizens.
By the time of the crash, the plane had been flying for seventeen years, made an 11 434 “takeoff - landing” cycle, an 75 322 hour was flown. The liner last passed the 11 July 2014 of the year, but it didn’t reveal any problems.
16 July 2014, the plane made a daily flight MH16 Kuala Lumpur - Amsterdam, arriving at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport at 04: 23. On 10: 14, the plane launched the return flight MH17 Amsterdam - Kuala Lumpur and on 10: 31 took off from the runway at Schiphol Airport. It was to fly, including over the territory of Ukraine, where by that time there was already a civil war in the Donbas.
Total aircraft crew consisted of 15 people. The commander of the main crew of the aircraft was 44-year-old Eugene Cho Jin Leong, the co-pilot was 26-year-old Muhamad Firdaus Abdul Rahim. The replacement crew was commanded by 49-year-old Van Amran Van Hassin, the co-pilot was 29-year-old Ahmad Hakimi Hanapi. All of them were experienced pilots with many thousands of flown hours. In addition, there were 11 flight attendants on the plane — the 3 steward and the 8 flight attendants — all of whom were also citizens of Malaysia.
This ill-fated flight on the "Boeing" flew 283 passenger. Most of the passengers were citizens of the Netherlands, as the plane took off from Amsterdam. In addition to the Dutch, the citizens of Malaysia, Australia, Indonesia, Britain, Germany, Belgium, the Philippines, Canada, Romania and New Zealand flew on the Boeing.
Tragedy in the sky over the Donbas
In 13: 20 UTC, an aircraft flying by then over the eastern part of Donbass was hit by a missile. Its warhead exploded to the left of the plane, in the cockpit area, after which the plane began to disintegrate in the air. The cockpit and half of the business class cabin almost immediately fell off and fell to the ground, while the rest of the aircraft was in the air for some time, flying another 8,5 kilometers to the east. From the moment of defeat and until the last parts of the aircraft fell to the ground, only about one and a half minutes passed.
The plane, or rather its fragments, fell near the village of Grabovo in the vicinity of the city of Torez, Donetsk region. The wreckage was scattered over a total area of more than 15 square kilometers. All the people aboard the plane died.
By the number of dead, the disaster in the Donetsk region has become the largest since the events of September 11 2001. She also entered the top ten largest aviation accidents for the entire history aeronautics.
The National Bureau of Investigation of Aircraft Accidents and Incidents with Civil Aircraft of Ukraine received information about the loss of Boeing 777 — 200 aircraft radar screens with registration number 9M-MRD in the morning of July 18 on July 2014. Notifications of the incident were sent to Malaysia as the country of registration and operation of Boeing, the United States of America as a developer country, as well as the Netherlands and Australia, whose citizens died as a result of a plane crash.
On the ground, the search began. As the plane collapsed in the zone under the control of the Donetsk militia, the leadership of the Donetsk People's Republic allowed Ukrainian specialists to participate in the search operation.
21 July 2014. The train with the bodies of 282 dead went from the railway station Torez to Kharkov. The procedure for identifying the bodies of the dead, it was decided to hold in the Netherlands. Another 16 bodies were under the rubble of the fuselage and removed them only after the entire search operation was completed. The Netherlands took the lead in investigating all the circumstances of the tragedy. Flight recorders were transferred to the authorities of Malaysia by representatives of the DPR, and those in turn transferred them to the Netherlands.
The liner was shot down by a rocket
The investigation of all the circumstances of the disaster took more than a year. Initially, different versions of what happened were put forward, but ultimately a final conclusion was made - the plane was shot down by a ground-to-air missile. October 13 2015 of the Netherlands Security Council (DSB) presented the final report of the investigation into the circumstances of the disaster. Analysis of the wreckage of the aircraft and the fragments extracted from the bodies of the passengers and crew members of the liner showed that the aircraft was shot down by a 9H314М missile. Such warheads are equipped with 9M38 and 9M38M1 missiles. These missiles are used as part of the Buk, Buk-М1 and Buk-М1-2 anti-aircraft missile systems.
In the second part of the report, it was concluded that the Ukrainian services, which were responsible for organizing the air traffic, did not adequately take into account all the risks that could accompany the flight of a civilian aircraft over the zone of operations in the Donbas.
The results of the investigation caused a negative reaction both in Ukraine and in Russia. President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko hastened to refute the accusations against the Ukrainian air services, stressing that they already closed the airspace to a height of 9725 meters and did not assume that it was also dangerous to fly above this mark.
In the Russian Federation, the results of the Netherlands investigation were considered biased and tendentious. Information was published that the launch of the rocket was made from the territory that was at that moment under the control of not the DPR militia, but the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Oleg Storcheva, Deputy Head of the Federal Air Navigation Agency, speaking at a press conference on 14 in October, called the report of the Netherlands side fabricated, made in “the technique of fitting facts to predetermined conclusions”.
14 January 2016, they were sent a letter to the Netherlands Security Council criticizing the report, but the Dutch authorities replied that the letter did not contain any new or valuable information. Meanwhile, almost from the very beginning of the investigation, the fact that Malaysia was admitted to the results of the investigation only after a few months could not but arouse suspicion. But after all, Malaysia was the country of registration and operation of the crashed aircraft, and the crew, and a significant part of the passengers were citizens of this country.
In turn, the United States and the countries of the European Union fully supported the report of the Netherlands, because it fit perfectly into their paradigm of treating Russia as a country that supposedly unleashed a war in the Donbas and poses a threat to both Ukraine and the world as a whole.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Australia officially laid the blame for the disaster on Russia. The international joint investigation team (Joint Investigation Team, JIT) formed after the disaster, which included representatives from the Netherlands, Belgium, Australia and Ukraine (only in the fall of 2014, Malaysia was admitted to it) stated that the airliner was shot down by a missile that belonged to 53 an anti-aircraft missile brigade of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation deployed in the Kursk region. But real evidence of this provided, of course, was not.
As for Ukraine, its president, Petro Poroshenko, almost immediately after the catastrophe accused the militia of Donbass and the special services of Russia for involvement in it. The Security Service of Ukraine opened a criminal case in connection with the incident under Article 258 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (an act of terrorism). Naturally, the West immediately took advantage of the disaster in the Donbas to impose additional economic sanctions against the Russian Federation.
In turn, Alexander Boroday, who was then the chairman of the DPR government, said that the militia did not have such anti-aircraft missile systems with which they could shoot down such a highly flying plane.
The representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said that the rocket that hit the liner was indeed made on the territory of modern Russia, but still in Soviet times, and after the collapse of the USSR, the rocket was on the territory of Ukraine. According to a representative of the Ministry of Defense, the Russian Buk-М1-2 anti-aircraft missile systems did not cross the border between the Russian Federation and Ukraine.
Five years later. West continues to blame Russia, Malaysia doubts
In June, 2019, it became known that the Ukrainian side had appointed and “suspects” of organizing a missile strike on the liner. They are Igor Girkin (Strelkov), who at that time occupied the post of Minister of Defense of the Donetsk Republic, Sergei Dubinsky, who led the DPR intelligence, the commander of the intelligence unit of the DPRU GRU, Leonid Kharchenko, and lieutenant colonel of the Russian army, Oleg Pulatov.
All of the above, except Kharchenko, are citizens of the Russian Federation. However, there was information that the Ukrainian authorities would not demand the extradition of these citizens, and this fact in itself raises big questions. In fact, Kiev is completely unprofitable for a public trial of those who were “appointed” as perpetrators of the tragedy in Ukraine. After all, any trial can shed light on the real causes of the collapse of the liner. No wonder the Dutch authorities still do not agree to make public the results of the investigation of the disaster.
The position of the Malaysian leadership is very interesting in this context. Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad (pictured) in June 2019 of the year said that Malaysia was very disappointed at the attempts of Western countries to put all the blame for the incident on the Russian Federation and use the catastrophe for political purposes.
According to the Malaysian Prime Minister, until now, the world has only “rumors” about Russia's alleged involvement in this tragic event. As for the evidence, the West does not provide them, but the accusations addressed to Moscow fell even before the start of the investigation of all the circumstances of the catastrophe.
- said Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad.
These words of the head of the government of the country that owned the crashed Boeing, and more than all other countries are interested in an objective investigation of what happened, are very indicative, as is the fact that Malaysia is still not allowed to decipher the data from the black boxes of the aircraft.
It is advantageous for the West to expose Russia as the immediate culprit of the catastrophe, and for the sake of this in Amsterdam, Brussels, Washington, and London are ready to do anything, including overt falsification of evidence, and silence on the facts.
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