(Bloomberg) -- Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashed last yearkilling 298 people after being brought down by a Buk missile firedfrom the eastern part of Ukraine when it entered airspace thatshould have been closed, a Dutch-led probe concluded.
The warhead detonated about 1 meter (3 feet) from the cockpit,ejecting hundreds of metal fragments that caused the break up ofthe Boeing Co. 777, which had been en route from Amsterdam toKuala Lumpur, Dutch Safety Board Chairman Tjibbe Joustra saidTuesday.
The missile was fired from within an area of 320 squarekilometers, Joustra said, adding in comments later that the zoneappeared to have been under the control of pro-Russia rebels at warwith government forces, though the frontier was changingregularly.
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