MH17 investigators: Possible missile parts found

August 11, 2015 23:21

Authorities investigating last year's downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine are examining what could be surface-to-air missile parts that were found in the area, a Dutch-led prosecution team said Tuesday.

The parts possibly come from a Russian-made Buk surface-to-air-missile system -- the type of system that the case's lead prosecutor already has said is suspected to have downed the plane.

But the prosecutors warned that no conclusion could yet be drawn that the discovered parts have a causal connection to the MH17 crash.

"The parts are of particular interest to the criminal investigation as they can possibly provide more information about who was involved in the crash of MH17," reads a statement released by the Joint Investigation Team, the international group of prosecutors leading the criminal investigation.

The Boeing 777 was heading from Amsterdam to Malaysia when it was shot down on July 17, 2014, over Ukrainian territory controlled by pro-Russian separatists. All 298 people on board were killed.

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