(Bloomberg) -- Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashed last year killing 298 people after being brought down by a Buk missile fired from the eastern part of Ukraine when it entered airspace that should 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 of the Boeing Co. 777, which had been en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, Dutch Safety Board Chairman Tjibbe Joustra said Tuesday.
The missile was fired from within an area of 320 square kilometers, Joustra said, adding in comments later that the zone appeared to have been under the control of pro-Russia rebels at war with government forces, though the frontier was changing regularly.
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