The 34-page report, issued by the Dutch Safety Board, Tuesday, also said that there were no indications that the MH17 crash in eastern Ukraine, which killed all 298 people on board, was caused by a technical fault or actions of the crew.
It said the pattern of damage observed in the forward fuselage and cockpit section of the aircraft was not consistent with the damage that would be expected from any known failure mode of the aircraft, its engines or systems.
“The fact that there were many pieces of aircraft structure distributed over a large area indicated that the aircraft broke up in the air,” the board said in the report.
The report contained initial information of the investigation into the crash involving the Malaysian B777-200 plane registered as 9M-MRD performing Flight MH17 from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to the KL International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang on July 17.
–BERNAMA
