Today the Joint Investigation Team (JIT), the Dutch-led criminal investigation into the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) over Ukraine, published a new photograph of the Russian Buk missile launcher that downed plane from the day of the tragedy. The image shows the right side of the Buk, loaded on the back of the white Volvo truck that hauled it through eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014. Also visible in the photograph is the blue Volkswagen minivan that escorted the Buk through eastern Ukraine on the same day. This anti-aircraft missile launcher is Buk 332, previously identified by Bellingcat as “Buk 3×2,” belonging to Russia’s Kursk-based 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade.
Murder In The Sky: Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17
Bellingcat: Joint Investigation Team publishes new photo of Buk 332 from day of MH17 downing
A picture taken on Nov. 10, 2014, shows parts of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 at the crash site near the village of Hrabove, some 80 kms east of Donetsk.
