Malaysia Airlines Flight 17

Airliner shot down by Russian-controlled forces in 2014

Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17/MAS17) was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down by Russian-backed forces with a Buk 9M38 surface-to-air missile on 17 July 2014, while flying over eastern Ukraine. All 283 passengers and 15 crew were killed. Contact with the aircraft, a Boeing 777-200ER, was lost when it was about 50 kilometres from the Ukraineโ€“Russia border, and wreckage from the aircraft landed near Hrabove in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, 40ย km from the border. The shoot-down occurred during the war in Donbas over territory controlled by Russian separatist forces.

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