Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad has expressed his dissatisfaction over the fact that the investigation into the 2014 crash of the Malaysia Airlines-operated Boeing in Ukraine was not conducted in an impartial manner with Kuala Lumpur’s participation but was rather focused on simply pinning the blame on Russia for political reasons.
Speaking at a press conference at the Japanese Foreign Correspondents’ Club on Thursday, the prime minister also noted that Malaysia should be allowed to participate in examining the plane’s flight recorder.
The Boeing, which was on its MH17 flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, crashed near the city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on 17 July 2014. All 298 people, mostly from the Netherlands, who were on board the plane were killed.