PUTRAJAYA: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said further investigations were necessary to confirm the findings of preliminary report into the MH17 tragedy.
He said: “The report confirms that MH17 was flying in unrestricted airspace under the control of local air traffic controllers, and following a route and altitude cleared by air traffic control.
"The aircraft was fully airworthy with no reported faults, and the crew acted properly," he said in a statement today.
The preliminary report, he said, even suggested that high energy objects penetrated the aircraft and led it to break up midair.
"This leads to the strong suspicion that a surface to air missile brought MH17 down, but further investigative work is needed before we can be certain," he said.