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At a press conference in Moscow on Tuesday Almaz-Antey presented an "expert report" on the crash, in which it said it believed the plane had indeed been downed by a Buk system.

It quickly became clear that the DC10 had been downed by a bomb.

The United States military said the cause was still under investigation, but witnesses near the wreckage said the helicopter had been downed by a missile.

The United States military said the cause of the crash was still under investigation, but witnesses near the mangled wreckage said the helicopter had been downed by a missile.

The explosion reported by witnesses raised the question of whether the plane had been downed by a terrorist bomb given the wave of bombings that have plagued Russia during its military campaign to crush a rebellion in Chechnya.

Within hours, there were rumours that the plane had been downed by a US rocket, in a botched attempt to disable Vladimir Putin's private jet, or that the plane had in fact been pre-filled with corpses.

US officials say they are "99.9 per cent sure" that plane was downed by a deliberately planted bomb.

Kiev said the jets were downed by a missile launched from Russian territory, and that the pilots had parachuted out.

Many reports, including an investigation by the open-source group Bellingcat, also suggest the plane was downed by a missile fired from near Snizhne.

A report released earlier this year said flight MH17 was downed by a missile that exploded just outside the cockpit, causing the aircraft to break up mid-air and crash.

Ukraine and Western countries contend the airliner was downed by a missile fired by Russia-backed rebels or Russian forces, from rebel-controlled territory.