
However, US officials have said there is no information to suggest a surface-to-air missile was launched against the aircraft.

"Therefore, either that could be an explosion, or it could be a surface-to-air missile system," he says.

One image shows a "swirl of cloud" which doesn't sit comfortably against the rest, Bell says.ĭrawing on his own experience of flying combat aircraft, he explains that if a surface-to-air missile hit the plane, "you would see that sort of vapour trail in the final stages of its approach". Sky News sourced, verified and examined several different videos of the plane crash, and laid out what the footage has told us.įormer pilot and military analyst Sean Bell produced this analysis. While Russia's investigative board may have confirmed that the 10 people named on a flight manifest all died in a plane crash, it offered no detail on any potential cause as to what brought it down in the first place.
