The United Nations aviation council ruled that Russia was responsible for the downing of a Malaysian Airlines flight which killed 289 people nearly 11 years ago.
The Boeing 777 aircraft was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur at an altitude of 33,000 feet on 17 July 2014 when it was allegedly shot down by a Russian surface-to-air missile over eastern Ukraine. Intense fighting was going on at the time between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces.
