A court in Kiev dismissed a $15.3 million lawsuit initiated by a Russian air carrier against the Ukrainian Defense Ministry over a decade-old incident in which a civilian plane was downed by a missile. The plane blew up in midair in 2001, en route from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk. The Moscow-based Interstate Aviation Committee, a civil aviation authority within the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), found that the crash was caused by an accidental Ukrainian S-200 missile strike during military training exercises. However, in court hearings, Ukrainian officials maintained, and the court apparently agreed, that there was insufficient evidence that the Tupolev-154 had been struck by a Ukrainian missile.
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