{"id":51267,"date":"2016-01-20T02:16:19","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T09:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=51267"},"modified":"2016-01-20T02:16:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T09:16:35","slug":"biased-low-quality-full-of-omissions-russia-launches-fresh-attack-on-dutch-mh17-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/01\/20\/biased-low-quality-full-of-omissions-russia-launches-fresh-attack-on-dutch-mh17-report\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Biased, low quality, full of omissions\u2019: Russia launches fresh attack on Dutch MH17 report"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The reconstructed wreckage of the MH17 airplane is seen after the presentation of the final report into the crash of July 2014 of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine, in Gilze Rijen, the Netherlands, October 13, 2015. \u00a9 Michael Kooren \/ Reuters<\/div>\n
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A senior Russian aviation official has presented new criticisms of the Dutch Safety Board\u2019s (DSB) handling of the MH17 investigation and low quality of its vague\u201d final report on the crash in Ukrainian skies, which killed 298 people in July 2014.<\/div>\n
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Russia would again like to draw attention to the bias of the DSB, the insufficient quality of the final report, and the omissions of important facts about the investigation by the Dutch side,\u201d<\/em> wrote the deputy head of the Russian aviation agency Rosavia, Oleg Storchevoy, in a column that appeared in the Dutch daily De Volkskrant on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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Tjibbe Joustra, chairman of the Dutch Safety Board, presents the final report into the crash of July 2014 of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine in Gilze Rijen, the Netherlands, October 13, 2015. \u00a9 Michael Kooren \/ Reuters<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Although the report, presented in October 2015, did not have the remit to apportion blame, it did conclude that the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 was brought down by a Russian-made Buk missile, and in public statements the DSB president Tjibbe Joustra has suggested it was fired from territories controlled by the anti-Kiev rebels. Moscow has rejected these claims, while the Buk manufacturer Almaz-Antey has unveiled an alternative report and results of full-scale experiment, which showed that an outdated model of one of its rockets, used by Kiev\u2019s forces, was likely to blame.<\/p>\n