Intel Community Assists Flight MH17 Investigation
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Agencies throughout the U.S. intelligence community are collaborating to develop as complete a picture as possible of the events surrounding the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, Richard H. Ledgett Jr., the deputy director of the National Security Agency, said at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado.
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Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 broke apart in the air after being hit by a burst of "high-energy objects," A preliminary report by Dutch aviation investigators said Tuesday.
The Boeing 777 "Broke up in the air probably as the result of structural damage caused by a large number of high-energy objects that penetrated the aircraft from outside," A press release accompanying the report said.
"There are no indications that the MH17 crash was caused by a technical fault or by actions of the crew," The statement said.
Flight 17 came down in eastern Ukraine on July 17 in an area controlled by pro-Russian separatists. Of the 298 people killed, around two-thirds were Dutch. Ref. CNN