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Information from the first experiment, in which a missile was sacked at aluminum sheets mimicking an airliner’s fuselage, was presented to the Dutch investigators, but was not taken into account, Almaz-Antey chief Novikov said.

However, they did agree that it was a 9N314M warhead launched by a BUK surface-to-air missile was responsible for downing the Malaysia Airlines plane.

Joustra said Ukrainian authorities had failed to close airspace, meaning “almost all operators” were flying across the country because civil aircraft was not thought to be at risk.

“We can not be 100%, but we have to think that was the case”, he said.

Joustra said Russia’s government had challenged the findings, saying fighters in that part of Ukraine did not have access to Buk systems at the time of the crash.

“The results of our experiment contradict the Dutch report”, said Yan Novikov, the general director of the company.

Fragments of the missile were discovered in the bodies of the three crew in the cockpit, the board said.

In a statement Tuesday by the White House, Price said the Dutch investigation was conducted in a professional manner and should serve as the basis for further investigation to identify those responsible for downing the aircraft. This would indicate that the missile hit the plane from the left side. “It is likely that the occupants were barely able to comprehend the situation in which they found themselves”. “I suspect they did with the help of former Russian soldiers”, two sources told Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant.

Commenting on the Dutch Safety Board’s final report, which concluded that the plane was shot down with a Buk missile, killing all 298 people on board, Rutte said Tuesday that a key priority “is now tracking down and prosecuting the perpetrators”.

It also examined why Dutch relatives had to wait for up to four days for confirmation that their loved ones had died, and to what extent the passengers were conscious before the plane hit the ground.

The investigation is not tasked with apportioning blame or liability for the crash – although it is possible that other conclusions could indirectly indicate blame.

The probe was led by The Netherlands because 196 of the victims were Dutch.

The presentation seems created to cast doubt on mounting evidence that the missile that destroyed MH17 was sacked from near Snizhne, in separatist-held territory south east of the crash site in Ukraine.

The Russian maker of BUK missiles on Tuesday said the passenger jet seems to have been shot down by an outdated version of the BUK missile that is no longer in use by the Russian military.

Even before the MH17 disaster, Western nations accused Russian Federation of supplying the rebels in Ukraine. He also stated that the Ukrainian army has these types of missiles in its possession.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, though, blamed Russia’s security service for the downing of MH17.