Rosaviation deems it necessary to consider theory of air attack on Boeing in southeastern Ukraine
MOSCOW. July 16 (Interfax) - It is necessary to study a theory that the Malaysian Boeing might have been hit by an air-to-air missile in the Donetsk region of Ukraine in preparation of the final report, deputy head of the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviation) Oleg Storchevoy has said.
"To our mind, it is also necessary to study all facts supporting the theory of the plane's destruction by an air-to-air missile," Storchevoy said at a press briefing in Moscow on Thursday.
"There are multiple videos from eyewitnesses of the disaster, the local residents who claim to have seen a military aircraft in the sky at the time of the Boeing crash," he said.
The Russian Investigative Committee has released a recording of a conversation with a Ukrainian military service member who claims that a fighter aircraft took off from a Ukrainian airfield on the day of the crash, Storchevoy said.
"All this, of course, must be thoroughly checked and studied," he said.
A report was published one of these days by a group of aviation experts who used the available photographic evidence "to calculate angles of engagement, the magnitude and possible mass of fragments, based on which they proved that the plane could only be hit by a foreign-made air-to-air rocket because such characteristics are non-existent in Russia," Storchevoy said.
