Utility workers and the fire marshal's office were trying to verify the cause, but Police Chief David Haley said his department was treating the blast as a natural gas explosion.
Photograph: Mohd Rasfan/AFP/Getty Images He continued that though Ukraine believes the plane was shot down, "at this stage Malaysia is unable to verify the cause of the tragedy, but we must and we will find out precisely what happened to this flight.
I pledge that the Japanese government will promptly and thoroughly verify the cause of this incident, as well as share information and the lessons learned with the rest of the world to help prevent such accidents in the future.
"Malaysia is unable to verify the cause of this tragedy.
A spokeswoman from Acer was unable to verify the cause for the cancellation but provided a statement.
Finally, the system was retrieved and analyzed to understand and verify the cause of observed long-term performance changes.
Puzzled astronomers think they caught a new kind of sporadic explosion, but they must find the object again to verify the cause.
Malaysia is "unable to verify the cause of this tragedy, but we must and we will find out precisely what happened to this flight," said Prime Minister Najib Razak.
A coupled mechanical and electrical characterization method to monitor the correlation of organic photovoltaic (OPV) electrode resistance and cell performance upon tensile strain and to verify the cause of deterioration and the effect of OPV performance under tensile stress has been developed.
No Post-mortem examination was performed to verify the cause of death.
