Lessons from the MH‐17 transboundary disaster investigation

Abstract

On 17 July 2O!4, a Malaysia Airlines Boeing777 that had departed a few hours before from Amsterdam airport in the Netherlands was shot down near Donetsk in Ukraine with 298 people on board. None of them survived the crash. The Dutch government soon called for an independent investigation into the causes of the crash. The conditions for such an investigation were highly complex. The circumstances of the crash indicated criminal intent and rlJmours were that the plane was shot from the sky. The lnternational Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) stipulates in its Annex 13 that an accident

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