The authors of the final Dutch report on the Malaysian Boeing crash have wrongly determined the spatial position of the missile relative to the plane at the impact moment and the site from where the missile was launched, Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya) deputy head Oleg Storchevoi said in his formal letter to Dutch Safety Board Chairman Tjibbe Joustra.

"The position, the scope and the boundaries of the impact, the number and density of holes on the debris and, in the first turn, the type of the damage done to the Boeing 777 framework, do not correspond to the point of detonation of the missile and its spatial position described by the final report. As a result, the possible site from where the missile was launched is determined wrongly," says the letter posted on the Rosaviatsiya website.

The probable launch site mentioned in the final report was determined in an incorrect interpretation of the conditions of the missile's impact on the plane, which was proven by the results of a full-size experiment staged by Almaz-Antey Concern, the report said.

"The full-size experiment staged by Almaz-Antey Concern proved that if the plane was downed by a Buk air defense missile the missile could be fired only from the area of Zaroschynske," the letter said.

Therefore, the point of detonation, the spatial position of the missile, and the presumed launch site are at variance with characteristics of 9M38 missiles, and the actual damage done to the front part of the Boeing 777 fuselage, it said.

"The spatial position of the missile in relation to the plane at the moment of the impact, which was presented in the final report, was at odds with characteristics of the fragmentation field of the impact on plane debris," it said.

The Boeing-777 plane of Malaysia Airlines en route from Amsterdam to Kuala-Lumpur crashed on July 17, 2014 in the eastern part of the Donetsk region near the village of Hrabove, not far from the city of Torez at the border with the Luhansk region where the armed conflict in Ukraine took place. The jet had 283 passengers and 15 crew members on board, all of whom died.

The Dutch Safety Board published a report on the MH17 crash on October 13, 2015. It says, in particular, that the airliner was shot down by a Buk surface-to-air missile. The document did not provide the exact location from where the missile was fired. The report also said that the crash occurred at a moment when the airspace over the conflict zone in Donbas had not been closed by Ukraine.

Almaz-Antey Concern General Director Yan Novikov said at a press conference that the results of two full-size experiments imitating the tragedy completely refuted the conclusions drawn by the Dutch commission in regard to the type of the missile and the site of its launch. He said that the theory proposed by the report had been used by the concern as the initial data, but it was fully refuted by the experiment.

"Today, we can definitely say, and we will demonstrate this in our presentation, that if the Boeing 777 of Malaysia Airlines was downed by a Buk air defense missile system, then it was hit by a 9M38 missile fired from the side of the populated locality of Zaroschynske," he said.