SURFACE TO AIR: MALAYSIA AIRLINES FLIGHT MH17 AND LOSS RECOVERY BY STATES FOR CIVILIAN AIRCRAFT SHOOTDOWNS
In: Journal of Air Law and Commerce, Jg. 80 (2015-07-01), S. 497
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I. INTRODUCTION ON JULY 17, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, bound for Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam, crashed outside of Donetsk, Ukraine. 1 Tragically, all 298 passengers and crew aboard the plane died. 2 The distribution of the wreckage indicated that the airplane had broken up in flight. 3 The location of the crash over eastern Ukraine, the site of an ongoing armed conflict between the Ukrainian military and pro-Russian Crimean separatists, immediately led many in the media and international community to suspect that the plane had been shot down by a missile. 4 The growing consensus that a missile strike downed the plane led to a flurry of finger-pointing between Russia and Ukraine, already in an armed and heated territorial dispute over eastern Ukraine and the Crimean peninsula. 5 Meanwhile, the Dutch Safety Board (DSB) attempted to conduct a thorough accident investigation despite significantly impeded access to the crash site. 6 The preliminary report reflected the political sensitivity of the situation by carefully attributing the crash to "high-energy objects that penetrated the aircraft from the outside." 7 The final report, however, came to a clear conclusion: The airplane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile (SAM) fired from a Buk missile system. 8 While the Dutch authorities have declined to attribute blame to any state or individual, 9 they have linked the crash to "the armed conflict in the eastern part of Ukraine," which had "expanded into the airspace" shortly before the ...
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SURFACE TO AIR: MALAYSIA AIRLINES FLIGHT MH17 AND LOSS RECOVERY BY STATES FOR CIVILIAN AIRCRAFT SHOOTDOWNS
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Gosling, Kimberly R. |
Zeitschrift: | Journal of Air Law and Commerce, Jg. 80 (2015-07-01), S. 497 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2015 |
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