Malaysia vows to find out who 'pressed the button' to shoot down flight MH17

PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia has vowed to unmask those responsible for "pressing the button" to shoot down Malaysia Airlines' Flight MH17, and bring the perpetrators to justice.
Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said "somebody has to be responsible for this incident".
"Somebody has pressed the button to shoot down the plane. We will try our best to find the culprit," he told a press conference when revealing the contents of a preliminary report on the Malaysia Airlines' Flight MH17 crash in July issued by the Dutch Safety Board yesterday.
Liow said Malaysia, with the help of international partners including from Australia and the Netherlands, would pursue the investigation to find the perpetrators.
The report had indicated that the plane broke up in the air, probably as a result of structural damage caused by a large number of high-energy objects that penetrated the aircraft from the outside.
Asked if any of the high-energy objects that hit the aircraft might have been a missile, Low declined to speculate and said: "The report stated very clearly it (the plane) was hit by very high-energy objects from outside; that's why we need to further analyse the data."
He said it was also important to re-enter the crash site to search for more evidence to help come up with detailed findings and also to locate the rest of the remains.
Liow said the government was striving to facilitate the process of moving into the crash site to recover the rest of the remains as well as the personal effects that were still there.
"I call upon the international community and all those involved in the Ukrainian conflict to seek justice and find the perpetrators who caused this brutal act of aggression," he said.
MAS Flight MH17 was carrying 298 passengers and crew from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was believed to have been shot down in eastern Ukraine on July 17.
Besides the 43 Malaysian passengers, the aircraft was also carrying passengers from the Netherlands, Australia, Indonesia, the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, the Philippines, Canada and New Zealand. – Bernama