Russia Appeals to UN Aviation Body to Open New MH17 Probe

Russia has appealed to the International Civil Aviation Organization to open a new probe into last year's downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine , the chief of the Russian aviation agency said Wednesday. The Boeing 777 crashed on July 17, 2014, in the middle of a military conflict between Russia-backed separatists and Ukrainian government forces. The Dutch Safety Board said in its final report released on Tuesday that the jet was destroyed by a Soviet-made Buk surface-to-air missile. The 15-month probe did not explicitly say who had fired the missile, but it identified an area of 320 square kilometers from where it said the launch must have taken place. Russia and the rebels insist that if the plane was destroyed by a missile, it must have been fired by the Ukrainian military.