MH17 investigators say Buk rocket strike is primary theory in downing

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KIEV, Ukraine — Nine months after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine, an international team investigating the incident says its primary theory is that the passenger jet was downed by a sophisticated surface-to-air Buk missile fired from Russia-backed separatist territory

All 298 people aboard the Boeing 777 flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur were killed after the airliner was struck and crashed on July 17, 2014.

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In a nearly 12-minute Russian-language video released to the public on Monday, the Dutch-led Joint Investigation Team (JIT) urges witnesses who saw a Buk missile system being transported through war-wracked eastern Ukraine on July 17 and 18 to come forward. Read more...

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