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Kiev Says MH17 Black Boxes Show Crash Caused by Rocket Shrapnel, Ukraine Army Wrests Control of Part of Crash Site
[An Nahar] Black boxes recovered from downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in rebel-held east Ukraine show shrapnel from a rocket kaboom caused the passenger jet to crash, a Ukrainian security official said Monday.International Sherlocks "indicated that data from flight recorders show that the reason for the destruction and crash of the plane was massive explosive decompression arising from multiple shrapnel perforations from a rocket kaboom," Andriy Lysenko, front man for Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, said. Data from the doomed airliner's black boxes was decrypted in Britannia after being handed over to Malaysian officials by pro-Russian rebels controlling the crash site of MH17. Investigators leading the probe in the Netherlands -- which lost 193 citizens on the doomed jet -- refused to confirm the latest information from Kiev, saying that they were "waiting to get a more complete idea of what happened." Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke groggily, his hand still stuck in the Ming vase... the Ukrainian army has seized control of part of the vast crash site of flight MH17 in the east of the country, pro-Russia rebels said on Monday. "The Ukrainians have taken over a part of the crash site," said Vladimir Antyufeev, self-styled first deputy prime minister of the "Donetsk People's Republic". Ukraine's military said its troops are battling separatist fighters for control of a string of towns around the impact site and had "entered" the town of Shakhtarsk, some 10 kilometers (six miles) from the scene. Posted by: Fred 2014-07-29 |
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