Authorities failed to reveal the data they received from US spy satellites and conversations intercepted during the crash, citing secrecy.
KUALA LUMPUR: German media have reported that there is no information to confirm that the Malaysian Airlines (MAS) MH17 flight was downed by a missile as the last minutes of the flight was not recorded by radar.
RIA Novosti reported that the media companies WDR and NDR obtained information that the German government said that AWACS aircraft patrolling Polish and Romanian airspace found the plane but links were lost when it entered uncontrolled area.
The two AWACS aircraft managed to record the signals of one of the anti-aircraft systems and another unknown system that was assigned to the SA-3 complex known as Pechora, which is a routine signal recorded in the region.
However, authorities failed to reveal the data they received from US spy satellites and conversations intercepted during the crash, citing secrecy, the portal reported.
This goes against what Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s earlier claim that MH17 was shot down by a surface-to-air missle.
The portal also cited a report on August 7 by New Straits Times which cited American intelligence analysts that the plan was shot down with the knowledge of the Ukrainian government.
MH17 crashed in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region on July 17 en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, with 298 people on board.
Investigations are still on going but have been constantly interrupted by fighting between Kiev forces and local militia in the area.
-- source: Astro Awani
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