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Old 25th Aug 2014, 09:50
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KatSLF
 
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This report is worth reading in its entirety to understand how the investigation is being carried out.
Dutch Safety Board | Investigations & Publication | Investigation crash MH17, 17 July 2014

The following countries have contributed (to a greater or lesser extent) to the international investigation team into the crash of flight MH17: Ukraine, Malaysia, Australia, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, France, Italy and Indonesia. The ICAO and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) also contributed to the investigation as organisations. The leadership of the investigation rests with the Dutch Safety Board, which will publish both the preliminary and final report. The countries that have a formal role as participants in the investigation under the ICAO agreement will be given access to the draft reports, and may provide feedback. The country leading the investigation may offer other countries access to the draft reports at its discretion.
The feedback is usually included in the final report. Sometimes a report may be modified to take relevant feedback into account. They wilol not be allowed to get any ofit classfied. They are not planning to release the whole CVR or FDR contents.

This is a crash investigation only. Any country in any way involved may undertake their own criminal investigations and lay charges. ATC records would be relevant therefore probably handed over. USA supposed satellite images would not be relevant, so probably not even asked for.

I believe that in the interests of political stability in the region, there will be no criminal investigation. After all an outcast/outlaw group is already publicly blamed for it, and it is also widely believed to have been accidental, ie mistaken identity. No individual can be identified, nor a chain of command (which given the situation probably didn't exist). Shocking and sad as the downing of MH17 was, it is not worth starting a world war about.

And why not?? Apart from people on this forum there are actually governments around the world that want to know what US intelligence thinks in this matter.
Governments may be told. The public is the peanut gallery. We have no claims to "need to know".

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