Ukraine explains not closing airspace before MH17 downed

Ukraine's foreign minister on Tuesday defended his country's decision not to close the airspace above eastern Ukraine at the time of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 last year.
Pavlo Klimkin told a press conference at the UN headquarters in New York that "it was impossible for Kiev to have anticipated the presence of sophisticated anti-aircraft missiles brought by Russia into the war zone."

"No one at the time had any kind of awareness of such a threat," he said.

His remarks came after Dutch investigators found that the Kuala Lumpur-bound Boeing 777-200 crashed as a result of a Russian-made BUK surface-to-air missile.

The report by the Dutch Safety Board did not specify who was responsible for the missile, but insisted that the airspace should have been closed at the time...
 aa.com.tr
13/10/15
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