Wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 lies in the road in Petropavlivka, Ukraine. Picture: Getty Unreleased data from a black box retrieved from the wreckage of Malaysia Flight 17 Airlines in Ukraine show findings consistent with the plane's fuselage being hit multiple times by shrapnel from a missile explosion, CBS News correspondent Mark Phillips reports.
"It did what it was designed to do," a European air safety official told CBS News, "bring down airplanes."
The official described the finding as "massive explosive decompression."
The escalating conflict in Ukraine adds to the difficulty of investigating the disaster.
If the full teams of aviation crash experts and security personnel ever do arrive at the crash site in Grabovo, it will be a relief to the handful who are already there.
The dedicated but small group of Dutch, Australian and Malaysian investigators has been on the crash site for the past few days and has learned that there's a lot more work to be done to find hard evidence of the cause of the crash.
They are also still making more grisly discoveries.
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