Dutch board to publish MH17 plane crash report

Dutch safety board will publish a final report on the causes for the MH17 plane crash over Ukraine, which left all 298 passengers on board dead.

The Dutch Safety Board is to publish a final report on why Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 crashed over Ukraine in 2014, the BBC reports.

The accident was one of the most tragic of its kind and it left all 298 people on board dead, and preliminary findings suggested it was hit by "high-energy objects from outside the aircraft", fuelling speculation that a surface-to-air missile was responsible.

The West and Ukraine insist rebels supporting Russia brought down the aircraft, but Russia continues to blame Ukraine. The anticipated report will however, not say who was to blame, but identify the exact cause.

The plane was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed over rebel-held eastern Ukraine on 17 July 2014 in the thick of the conflict between government troops and the pro-Russian separatists.