The Dutch Safety Board has said that there was sufficient reason for Ukraine to close the airspace over its eastern part at the time, when the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was shot down.
“It is clear that Ukraine already had sufficient reason to close the airspace over the eastern part of Ukraine as a precaution before 17 July 2014. None of the parties involved recognised the risk posed to overflying civil aircraft by the armed conflict in the eastern part of Ukraine,” the Dutch Safety Board said in a press release issued on occasion of publishing its final report on MH17 crash.
