"hull-loss occurred on July 17, 2014, when a 777-200ER, bound for Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam as Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17), broke up in mid-air and crashed in the Donetsk province in eastern Ukraine, after being hit by an anti-aircraft missile. All 298 people (283 passengers and 15 crew) on board were killed, making this the deadliest crash involving the Boeing 777. The incident was linked to the ongoing Donbass insurgency in the region. The official accident report, released in October 2015, states that airliner was brought down by a Buk missile launched from territory held by pro-Russian separatists. On"
"Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down on 17 July 2014 while flying over eastern Ukraine, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board. Contact with the aircraft, a Boeing 777-200ER, was lost when it was about from the Ukraine–Russia border and wreckage of the aircraft fell near Hrabove in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, from the border. The shoot-down occurred in the War in Donbass, during the Battle of Shakhtarsk, in an area controlled by pro-Russian rebels. The crash was Malaysia Airlines' second aircraft"
"that Russia's claim is ""yet another failed fake report that the Kremlin made up in order to cover up their crime that has been proven by the official investigation as well as independent experts."" Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down on 17 July 2014 while flying over eastern Ukraine, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board. Contact with the aircraft, a Boeing 777-200ER, was lost when it was about from the Ukraine–Russia border and wreckage of the aircraft fell near Hrabove"
"Kuala Lumpur, was shot down while flying over eastern Ukraine. All 283 passengers and 15 crew members died after the Boeing 777 was hit by a burst of ""high-energy objects"". In a press conference, Russian officials blamed the flight's destruction on Ukrainian forces and presented radar data, expert testimony and a satellite image. The radar data that showed another aircraft in the vicinity of MH17 was debunked as falling debris from MH17 by experts. A Spanish air traffic controller in Kiev gave interviews that stated that two Ukrainian fighter jets followed the Malaysian plane but the Spanish Embassy later said"
"were killed in battle with rebel forces. In Donetsk Oblast, north of Torez, near the Russian border, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 283 passengers and 15 crew members on board, was hit by a surface-to-air missile at an altitude of and crashed. Both the Ukrainian military and the opposition have stated that they are not responsible for the incident. The White House confirmed that the United States is investigating what happened and that it is believed the plane involved was a Boeing 777. Malaysian Deputy Foreign Minister Hamzah Zainuddin said that the foreign ministry"
"fighting. Attempts to form a ""contact group"" between the insurgents and the Ukrainian government, part of President Poroshenko's ""fifteen-point peace plan"", failed, leaving little hope of a renewed ceasefire. The insurgents later said that they successfully retook Marynivka from the Armed Forces. A civilian passenger jet, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, was shot down over Hrabove on 17 July, killing all 298 people on board. DPR-affiliated insurgents blamed the Ukrainian government for the disaster, whereas the government, Netherlands, and Australia blamed Russia and the insurgents. This disaster followed two similar incidents earlier in the week, when two Ukrainian Air Force planes"
"with pro-Russian insurgents twenty-five times in the past twenty-four hours. Amidst a wide counter-offensive by insurgents forces across the Donbass on 26 August, Savur-Mohyla was recaptured by DPR-affiliated forces. Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down with a Buk surface-to-air missile near Hrabove, about from Shakhtarsk, on 17 July. All 283 passengers and 15 crew died in the shoot-down. According to DPR forces, a National Guard convoy entered Shakhtarsk from the north on 27 July. Air raid sirens were heard, heavy fighting erupted, and street battles took place"
"unrest in Ukraine the town was held by separatists. On July 15, 2014, rockets from an unidentified aircraft struck the town hitting an apartment building and a tax office, leaving at least eleven people dead and eight injured. Separatists blamed the Ukrainian Air Force for the attack, but Ukrainian sources denied it and stated that since the incident where a An-26 plane was shot down on July 14, 2014, they have carried out no flights there. Instead they blamed Russian jets. After the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on July 17, 2014, a YouTube video and photo emerged with"
"deaths were foreigners: 298 passengers and crew of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, 11 Russian journalists, an Italian journalist, one Russian civilian killed in cross-border shelling and a Lithuanian diplomat. Ukrainian government forces have lost a confirmed total of 4,159 killed servicemen by early December 2018, including 190 foreign-born Ukrainian citizens and 13 foreigners. Another 123 Ukrainian soldiers were missing. Pro-Russian sources claimed Ukrainian forces had: 10,000 killed, 20,000 wounded and 13,500 deserted or missing, by late June 2015. The separatists reported that they had lost 1,400 men at most as of the beginning of February 2015. The pro-Russian death toll"
"Amsterdam–Kuala Lumpur route to flight number MH19 beginning on 25 July 2014, with the outbound flight unchanged. In association with the retirement of the Boeing 777 aircraft type from Malaysia Airlines' fleet, Malaysia Airlines terminated service to Amsterdam, opting to codeshare with KLM on the KUL-AMS route for service beyond 25 January 2016. On 18 July 2014, shares in Malaysia Airlines dropped by nearly 16%. On 23 July 2014, two Ukrainian military jets were hit by missiles at the altitude of close to the area of the MH17 crash. According to the Ukrainian Security Council, preliminary information indicated that the"
"the Russian border on 14 July. It had been flying at an altitude of 6,500 metres. The head of Ukraine's Security Service Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, stated on 15 July that the SBU had ""indisputable"" evidence of Russian involvement in the attack. Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over the conflict zone on 17 July near Torez in Donetsk Oblast, over an area of Ukraine controlled by pro-Russia separatists. Evidence from open sources indicated that Buk missile launcher, that widely believed to have been used to shoot down the passenger flight, came from Russia, and was transported on 17 July from"
"crew of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, 11 Russian journalists, an Italian journalist, one Russian civilian in cross-border shelling and a Lithuanian diplomat. Casualties of the Ukrainian crisis The number of deaths in the Ukrainian crisis has climbed into the thousands since it started in late November 2013, with most of them occurring during the War in Donbass. During the events of the Euromaidan protests in Kiev from 21 November 2013 through 23 February 2014, a total of 110–123 protesters and 18 police officers were killed in street clashes in the Ukrainian capital. In addition, one more participant of the Euromaidan"
"Flight 214 (3 fatalities). In both of those categories, Flight 370 was surpassed 131 days later by Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, another Boeing 777-200ER, which was shot down on 17 July 2014, killing all 298 people aboard. The news media reported several sightings of an aircraft fitting the description of the missing Boeing 777. For example, on 19 March 2014, CNN reported that witnesses, including fishermen, an oil rig worker and people on the Kuda Huvadhoo atoll in the Maldives saw the missing airliner. A fisherman claimed to have seen an unusually-low-flying aircraft off the coast of Kota Bharu; while"
"under Girkin's name which acknowledged shooting down an aircraft at approximately the same time that the civilian arliner Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) was reported to have crashed in eastern Ukraine in the same area near the Russian border on 17 July 2014. The post specifically referenced how warnings were issued for planes not to fly in their airspace and the downing of a Ukrainian military Antonov An-26 transport plane which the Ukraine Crisis Media Center suggested was a case of misidentification with the MH17. This post was deleted later in the day and the account behind it claimed that"
"contract by the airline. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called the crash the result of an act of terrorism, and also called for an international investigation into the crash. Malaysian Deputy Foreign Minister Hamzah Zainuddin said that the foreign ministry would be working with the Russian and Ukrainian governments with regard to the incident. Prime Minister Najib Razak said that Malaysia was unable yet to verify the cause of the crash and demanded that the perpetrators be punished. The Malaysian government flew the national flag at half-mast from 18 July until 21 July. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and King Willem-Alexander"
"International reactions to the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 shootdown The shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on 17 July 2014 provoked reactions from many countries and organisations. Argentinian President Cristina Fernández expressed her deep condolence to the families of the victims and called for an independent and fair investigation of the tragedy. The downing of the flight had resulted in the death of 38 Australian citizens and residents. In the lead up to the 2014 G20 meeting in Brisbane, Tony Abbott sought to focus attention on Russia's role in the shooting. In a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin"
"777, some conspiracy theorists have suggested that the plane that crashed in Ukraine was actually Flight 370. This is based in part on photographs of the crash scene, which conspiracy theorists claim show that the plane that crashed in Ukraine had structural differences from MH17. Experts have dismissed this theory and argued that it is merely coincidental that both planes involved belonged to the same airline. When Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashed on 28 December 2014, various similarities with MH370 were noted, including that both airlines were Malaysian-owned, and that both planes lost contact with air traffic control. There was"
"South Ledge between Malaysia and Singapore. Fauziah's other overseas postings include as Deputy Chief of Mission in Washington, D.C. and Ambassador to Fiji (with concurrent accreditation to Nauru, Tonga, Kiribati, and Tuvalu), before being assigned as Ambassador to the Netherlands. On 17 July 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was downed in rebel-held Ukrainian territory, near the Ukrainian-Russian border. A total of 283 passengers and 15 crew members from ten different countries were on board the ill-fated plane when it crashed. The majority of the passengers were Dutch. When the human remains of flight"
"that he thought of the incident again after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 had been shot down in Ukraine on 17 July 2014. The surviving pilots, both of whom witnessed the missile and its explosion from the cockpit, then decided to speak about the incident in public. Pekka Henttu, director of the aviation department in Trafi, said that today such an incident would not be hushed. It is likely that the authorities and the top executives of the airline would have been informed of it even before the plane lands. Mr. Pekka Vennamo, who was the minister of transportation in 1987,"
"the Cabinet Rutte II, and Timmermans being appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs, taking office on 5 November 2012. On 24 March and 25 March 2014 the Netherlands hosted the 2014 Nuclear Security Summit, Timmermans as Minister of Foreign Affairs was charged with welcoming all attending representatives. On 17 July 2014, passenger flight Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over Ukraine resulting in the deaths of 194 Dutch citizens. The next day Timmermans flew to Kiev to meet with President Petro Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to discuss the matter, following which, on 21 July 2014, Timmermans addressed the"
"the crash site had been destroyed. Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte acknowledged on 6 August that early reports of chaos and criminality around the site may have been exaggerated. One eye-witness observed that valuable items like shoes and bottles of alcohol were untouched in the wreckage. About 90 minutes after the incident, Ukraine closed all routes in Eastern Ukrainian airspace, at all altitudes. The incident dramatically heightened fears about airliner shootdowns, leading to some airlines announcing they would avoid overflying conflict zones. Shortly after the crash, it was announced that Malaysia Airlines would retire flight number MH17 and change the"
"31 July. This was meant to allow international experts to examine the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which is located in Shakhtarsk Raion, where the fiercest battles had been taking place on the previous few days. Monitors were escorted to the site by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. After fighting severed various transmission lines, Luhansk city lost all access to electrical power. Little fuel remained to power emergency generators. Minor skirmishes occurred in Vasylivka and Zhovtneve. Meanwhile, talks between the separatists, Russia, Ukraine, and the OSCE were held in Minsk. Fighting continued in Shakhtarsk. An ambush by the"
"its parking lot. The fighting prevented a Dutch policemen team to reach the area where Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 crashed on 17 July. Ukrainian sources claim that a military convoy from Russia, composed of 19 tanks, six armoured carriers and four ""Grad"" systems passed through the town of Krasny Luch. Heavy shelling from the village of in Russia killed four Ukrainian servicemen and wounded two in the Ukrainian border checkpoint of Dolzhansky. Ukrainian Minister of Defence Valeriy Geletey acknowledged that 41 Ukrainian soldiers from the 51st armoured brigade deserted from their besieged border outpost and sought shelter into Russian territory."
"ashore) and the shootdown of flight MH17 by pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine as part of the War in Donbass. The total number of fatalities in 2014 was 869 more than in 2013. Deaths and incidents per year according to ACRO and Bureau of Aircraft Accident Archives data, : The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is tasked by Article 15(4) of Regulation (EC) No 216/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of February 20, 2008 to provide an annual review of aviation safety. The Annual Safety Review presents statistics on European and worldwide civil aviation safety. Statistics are grouped"
"withdrew from the border with Russia after breaking through the rebel lines. Seven Ukrainian soldiers were killed and 19 wounded during the past 24 hours of military operations. Ukrainian authorities said that they were suspending the 20 kilometres no-fighting zone around the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. The head of the SBU (the Ukrainian secret services) claimed that instead of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing, rebellion commanders wanted to shoot Aeroflot Flight 2074 from Moscow to Larnaca in Cyprus, to provoke a Russian invasion. But militiamen who were supposed to fire from north-west of Donetsk finally took position in"
"is cool, it's completely new. Its seats are narrow, but the flights aren't very long so I hope everything will be OK."" In the aftermath of the unsolved shootdown on 17 July 2014 of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine, on 30 July 2014 the European Union placed additional sanctions on Russian individuals and entities, amongst them Dobrolet, LLC. The EU justified the sanctions on Dobrolet as it was state-owned and Dobrolet had operated only on the Moscow to Simferopol route, which in the view of the EU facilitates what it deemed to be the illegal integration of Crimea"
"ATC for further explanation but ""did not receive any clarity on the meaning of the restriction to FL 530"" As with other countries, Ukraine receives overflight fees for commercial aircraft that fly through their borders and this may have contributed to the continued availability of civilian flight paths through the conflict zone, and so flights were allowed that time over FL 320 in the area (MH17 was at FL 330 at the incident) On Thursday, 17 July 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 departed from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol Gate G3 at 12:13 CEST (10:13 UTC) and took off at 12:31 local"
"of the growing industrial economy, with large amounts of air and water pollution along with deforestation affecting tourism. The tourism sector came under some pressure in 2014 when the national carrier Malaysia Airlines had one of its planes disappear in March, while another was brought down by a missile over Ukraine in July, resulting in the loss of a total 537 passengers and crew. The state of the airline, which had been unprofitable for 3 years, prompted the government in August 2014 to nationalise the airline by buying up the 30 per cent it did not already own. Between 2013"
"of the incident"". Since the crash, memorial services have been held in Australia and the Netherlands, with the Netherlands declaring a national day of mourning. The opening ceremony of the AIDS 2014 conference, of which several delegates were on board flight MH17, began with a tribute to the victims of the crash. In Malaysia, makeshift memorials were created in the capital city of Kuala Lumpur. International reactions to the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 shootdown The shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on 17 July 2014 provoked reactions from many countries and organisations. Argentinian President Cristina Fernández expressed her deep"
"be involved in the downing of a civilian airliner, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, on 17 July 2014. On August 8, the militia claimed that after battles near border with Russia, they captured 67 pieces of equipment with varying status (serviceable equipment without ammunition and fuel, with faults, damaged in battle and completely unusable), including 18 multiple rocket launching systems ""Grad"", 15 tanks and armored personnel carriers, howitzers, MANPADS, etc. As of August 12, the militia has at least 200 armored vehicles. The months of July and early August were disastrous for the militias with many analysts saying they were on"
"The authorities then moved to destroy the church, but local people successfully prevented its complete destruction. The village came to international attention as it became the site of much of the debris from the destruction of the aircraft for Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was shot down in the region on 17 July 2014, killing all 298 on board. At the time, Hrabove was in the conflict zone of the ongoing Donbass insurgency, in an area controlled by pro-Russian rebel groups. Since 2010 the head of the village council has been Volodymyr Berezhnyi (born 1955). The 2001 census indicated a"
"time (10:31 UTC). It was due to arrive at Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 06:10 MYT, Friday, 18 July (22:10 UTC, 17 July). According to the original flight plan, MH17 was to fly over Ukraine at flight level 330 (33,000 feet or 10,060 metres) and then change to FL 350 around the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk. When it reached the area as planned, at 15:53 local time (12:53 UTC), Dnipropetrovsk Air Control (""Dnipro Control"") asked MH17 if they could climb to FL 350 as planned, and also to avoid a potential separation conflict with another flight, Singapore Airlines Flight 351"
"2014 Ukrainian Air Force Il-76 shootdown On 14 June 2014, an Ilyushin Il-76 transport aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down by forces of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic while on approach to land at Luhansk International Airport, Ukraine, during the course of the war in Donbass. The aircraft was carrying troops and equipment from an undisclosed location. All 49 people on board were killed. The aircraft was carrying military equipment and 40 troops, as well as a crew of nine. It was coming in to land at Luhansk International Airport when it came under heavy anti-aircraft fire."