The United States fully trusts the Netherlands's investigation into the crash of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 airliner in Donetsk region and will not allow Russia to obstruct this investigation, United States Permanent Representative to the UN Samantha Power has said.
“It is time to stop all attempts to undermine the credibility of a thorough, impartial, and independent investigation that the international community has no reason to doubt. Russia does not have the track record to play the credible investigator here,” she said at a meeting of the UN Security Council on Friday, Sept. 19.
Power believes that if Russia has evidence that it believes can help identify who shot down Flight MH 17, it has a responsibility to share that information with the independent investigators.
The Malaysia Airlines’ Boeing 777, which was flying from Amsterdam (the Netherlands) to Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17. All 298 people on board were killed. They included 192 Dutch citizens (one also had U.S. citizenship), 44 Malaysians, including the 15 crew members, 27 Australians, 12 Indonesians, ten Britons (one also had South African nationality), four Germans, four Belgians, three Filipinos, one Canadian and one New Zealander.
The Dutch Safety Board published a preliminary report on an investigation into the MH17 crash on Sept. 9, which says that the plane was technically sound and broke up in the air probably as a result of structural damage caused by a large number of objects that penetrated the aircraft from outside
