HIGHLIGHTS OF INQUIRY REPORT ON MH17:
- Report delivered by Dutch Safety Board chairman Tjibbe Joustra
- It was a 9N314M warhead launched by BUK surface-to-air missile
- Missile launched from a 320 square-kilometre area in eastern Ukraine where Russian separatists were operating though no responsibility was apportioned
- Missile hit the Boeing 777 on the left side of the cockpit
- Missile exploded less than a metre from MH17 cockpit
- Explosion tore off the cockpit and front part of plane
- Rest of the plane broke up in mid-air
- Plane broke up over a 50km wide area
- Reconstruction of plane hampered by difficulty recovering parts
- Simulation of possible explosions brought them to conclusion
- Fragments found in the cockpit such as aluminium and glass proved they perforated the jet from the outside, also bits of explosive found on parts of cockpit, traces of paint linked to a missile carrying a warhead were also found and sounds picked up by cockpit microphones aided in deduction
- "High-energy objects were also found in the bodies of the three crew members in the cockpit"
- MH17 did not crash as a result of meteor strikes, technical defects, a bomb or mid-air collision with another plane
- Air space should have been restricted
- On the day of the crash, 160 flights flew over the area
- No one thought civil aviation was at risk
- Report recommends new ways of dealing with conflict areas
