(CNN) — Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 broke apart in the air after it was hit by a burst of “high-energy objects” from outside, a preliminary report by Dutch aviation investigators said Tuesday.
Flight 17 came down in eastern Ukraine on July 17 in an area controlled by pro-Russian separatists. Of the 298 people killed, around two-thirds were Dutch.
The U.S. and Ukraine have accused pro-Russian separatists operating in the region of downing the plane with a missile.
The Dutch Safety Board report supports the theory of a warhead exploding in close proximity to the passenger jet, but it doesn’t point any fingers at who might have fired it.
“Anybody who’s looking for blame, or somebody who says that the rebels did it or that somebody else did it, is going to be disappointed,” said CNN Aviation Correspondent Richard Quest. “That’s not what this report says.”
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