Russian Foreign Ministry suspects U.S. of concealing truth about people responsible for Boeing crash in Ukraine
MOSCOW. March 31 (Interfax) - The United States' refusal to provide satellite images to the father of a passenger killed in the crash of a Malaysian Boeing in Ukraine, shows that Washington is trying to protect those who are really responsible for the tragedy, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova has said.
"The current reply by the head of the State Department even further reinforces the impression that Washington knows who really is responsible for the fall of the Boeing, and is deliberately hiding the truth, in a bid to protect the true perpetrators from responsibility," she said at a briefing on Thursday.
"One of these days, there were media reports that the U.S. administration refused to provide Thomas Schansman, the father of Quinn Schansman, who was killed in the air crash of the Malaysian Boeing, with U.S. satellite images, which could shed light on the circumstances of the tragedy, the spokeswoman said.
The Malaysia Airlines' Boeing 777, which was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014, killing all 298 people on board.