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| <p>On 17 July 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 — a Boeing 777-200ER operating from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur — was shot down over eastern Ukraine at approximately 16:20 UTC, killing all 298 people on board: 283 passengers and 15 crew.<ref name="mirror1" /> The aircraft came down near the village of Hrabove in Donetsk Oblast, an area controlled by pro-Russian separatists fighting Ukrainian government forces, with debris scattered across a 15-kilometre stretch of farmland.<ref name="mirror1" /> No group immediately claimed responsibility, though US and Ukrainian officials pointed to a surface-to-air missile as the cause.</p>
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| <p>Mirror Online noted that both MH17 and MH370 involved Boeing 777 aircraft with similar passenger loads — 298 on MH17 compared to 239 on MH370 — and that the new disaster was "inevitably" reopening speculation about what had happened to the missing jet four months earlier.<ref name="mirror1" /> The ongoing search for MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean was described as "purely an underwater effort," with any realistic prospect of surface debris having "all but disappeared."<ref name="mirror1" /></p>
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| <ref name="mirror1">Sam Rkaina, ''Malaysia plane crash: Latest disaster reopens questions on whether missing MH370 was shot down'', Mirror Online, 17 July 2014.</ref>
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Thursday 17 July 2014
News Summary
On Thursday 17 July 2014 Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down while flying over eastern Ukraine.
The aircraft, a Boeing 777-200-ER, (the same aircraft type used for flight MH370) was carrying 283 passengers and 15 crew. There were no survivors.
Media Statements
Note: Media Statements were published on Friday 18 July 2014.
