History: Malaysia Airlines Flight 17

Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, shortened MH17 or MAS17 also codeshared as KLM Flight 4103 or KL4103 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. On the 17th of June 2014 the aircraft performing the flight, a Boeing 777-200ER registered 9M-MRD crashed in the vicinity of Hrabove in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, approximately 42 km from border with Russia. The aircraft was carrying 280 passengers and 15 crew members. There were no survivors of the crash.

Ukrainian authorities claim that the aircraft was shot down by pro-russian separatists. The separatists claimed that the Ukrainian government shot down the plane. Initial Twitter reports attribute to the separatists the responsibility for shooting down the plane. U.S. intelligence officials confirmed that the initial intelligence assessment showed that a surface-to-air-missile had been fired at the plane, however they could not confirm its origin.

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