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Malaysia Airlines Flight 17(MH17/MAS17)[a]was a scheduled international passenger

flight from Amsterdamto Kuala Lumpurthat crashed on 17 July !1"#[7]$he plane is

%elie&ed to ha&e %een shot down with a'usurfacetoair missile#[*]$he 'oeing 777!!+,airliner went down near -ra%o&ein .onets %last0 raine0 a%out "! m

(2 mi) from the raine3,ussia %order0[4]illing all *5 passengers and 12 crew on

%oard#[1!][11][1]

$he crash occurred in the conflict 6one of the ongoing .on%ass insurgency0in an area controlled %y the .on%ass eople8s 9ilitia#

$he two sides in raine8s ongoing ci&il conflict(the rainian go&ernment and the pro

,ussian separatists) accused each other of shooting down the plane with a missile# [15][1"]A

rainian :nterior 9inistryofficial0 Anton ;erashcheno0 said a 'u missile hit theaircraft at an altitude of 1!0!!! m (550!!! ft)# [1!]nited


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light 17 was operated with a 'oeing 777-?+,0[%]serial num%er *"110 registration

499,.#[!]$he *"th 'oeing 777produced0 it first flew on 17 July 14470 eCactly 17

years %efore the incident0 and was deli&ered new to 9alaysia Airlines on 4 July 1447#[1]+mploying two ,olls,oyce $rent *4engines and configured to carry * passengers

(52 %usiness and "7 economy)0 the aircraft had logged more than "50!!! hours of flight

time0 including ?042! cycles0 %efore the crash#[1][]

A&iation eCperts say the 'oeing 7770 which entered commercial ser&ice on 7 June 14420has one of the %est safety records in commercial aircraft# As of June !1"0 there were

a%out 10!! aircraft in ser&ice0 with some 5"! more on order#[5]nly four other 777s

ha&e suffered a hull lossD 'ritish Airwayslight 5*in January !!*E a cocpit fire in apared +gyptAir777!! at Bairo :nternational Airportin !11E and Asiana Airlines

light 1"in July !150 in which three people died# 9alaysia Airlines 777 light 57!

(registration 499,) went missing on * 9arch !1" and was still %eing searched for atthe time of light 178s crash#

Passengers and crew

eople on %oard %y nationality["][2]

Nation

Number

(boarding

assort!

"ual nationality

(boarded with

other assort!

Australia[?][c][d] 7 1[e]

'elgium " 1[f]

Banada[g][5!] 1 !

;ermany " !

:ndonesia 1 !

:reland[h] ! 1

:srael [i][51] ! 1

:taly[@][5] ! 1

9alaysia[][l] "5 !

=etherlands[m] 145 !

=ew Fealand 1 1[n]

hilippines 5 !

,omania[o][55] ! 1


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eople on %oard %y nationality["][2]

Nation

Number

(boarding

assort!

"ual nationality

(boarded with

other assort!

Hietnam[t][5"] ! 5

#otal $%&

All *5 passengers and 12 9alaysian crew died#[52][5?][57]A%out twothirds of thepassengers were from the=etherlands#Authorities initially said there were 42 people on

%oard0 ha&ing not accounted for three infants#[5*][54]'y 14 July0 the airline had officially

determined the nationalities of all 4* passengers and crew#["]

Among the passengers were delegates en route to the!th :nternational A:.< Bonferencein 9el%ourne0 including Joep Lange0 a former president of the :nternational A:.["?]Later0 in April the :nternational Bi&ilA&iation rgani6ationwarned go&ernments that there was >the possi%le eCistence of

serious riss to the safety of international ci&il flights> o&er raine# $he eCercise eCtreme caution

due to the continuing potential for insta%ility#>["7]["*]Aeroflot0Lufthansa0


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the aircraft with an airtoair missile fired %y a 9i;4@et in ,ussia0 while a spoesman

for the ,ussian defence ministryre@ected those accusations as a%surd#[2*][24][?!]

n 1 July rainian officials ad&ised pilots not to fly %elow ?0!!! feet (704!! m) o&ereastern raine#[?1]n 1" July rainian officials increased that limit to 50!!! feet

(40*!! m) o&er eastern raine#[?1]

n 12 July0 following his &isit to Kie&0 olish 9inister of oreign Affairs ,adosaw

$hese are mo%ile rocets

whose sale is go&erned %y international rules and they are for%idden from %eing supplied

to nonstate groups0 %ecause that creates the possi%ility of the proliferation of these indsof weapons0 which creates a danger to ci&il a&iation around the world0> he said#[?]n 17

July ,ussia closed more than a do6en airways at &arious altitudes#[?5]n the same day an

unnamed Associated ress @ournalist saw a 'u launcher in


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Amsterdam Airport


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According to the :nternational Air $ransport Associationand the +uropean Bocpit

Association0 the aircraft was in unrestricted airspace when it lost contact#[?*][?4][7!]

9alaysia Airlines released a statement saying >it recei&ed notification from rainianA$B that it had lost contact with flight 9-17 at 1"12 (;9$)[u]at 5! m (14 mi) from

[the] $A9AK waypoint ("721M"N= 5415M?N+[71]

)0 approCimately 2! m (51 mi) fromthe ,ussia3raine %order> ($A9AK Iaypoint is on the ,ussia3raine %order [7]) and

that >According to information pro&ided %y Kie& Air $raffic Bontrol0 the location of theplaneOs emergency locator %eacon is "* degrees 7 minutes and 5 seconds =orthE and 5*

degrees 51 minutes and 55 seconds +ast#>[75]

$he plane crashed near the &illage of -ra%o&e@ust north of $ore60 a city in easternraine8s.onets %last0 as it was approaching the ,ussian %order#[4]$he moment at

which a fire%all rose due to the impact was supposedly captured on a &ideo clip#[7"]

lightradar"reported that a rogress> mine0 away from residential

areas# According to one of the militias0 at approCimately 17D5! local time an An? flewo&er the city# :t was hit %y a rocet0 there was an eCplosion and the plane went to the

ground0 lea&ing a %lac smoe# .e%ris fell from the sy># [74]:$A,$A


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$he :nfrared pre&entati&e measures> against possi%le fraud#[4]$here are also accounts of corpses and

their possessions %eing remo&ed and e&idence at the crash site %eing destroyed[45][4"]andsuitcases %eing looted#[42]

)n*estigation
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+Cternal audio

ro,ussian re%els discuss the shooting down of an

aircraft:ntercepted phone calls0 not independently

&erified0 %etween re%els discussing which re%el group

shot down the aircraft and initial reports it was aci&ilian aircraft# Audio (in ,ussian) released %y

%y cooperating withrainian authorities and 0 including mo&ing 5* %odies to .onets#[4*]

Andre urgin0 a leader of the .onets eople8s ,epu%lic0 declared later that >we willguarantee the safety of international eCperts on the scene as soon as Kie& concludes a

ceasefire agreement>#[44]

A rainianled international in&estigation will eCamine why the plane crashed# $he

nited Kingdom is sending siC in&estigators from the Air Accidents :n&estigation 'ranch

to assist#[1!!]$he K oreign fficehas sent eCtra consular staff to raine and the

9etropolitan oliceis liaising with international partners to send specialist officers to the
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country to assist with the reco&ery0 identification and repatriation of those who died#[1!!]

Australia has sent a "2mem%er pro%e panel headed %y former Air Bhief 9arshalAngus

-ouston0 who had earlier super&ised the 9- 57! pro%e#[1!1]A senior < administrationofficial said to A'B =ewsthat ': and =$Ie ha&e compelling

e&idence that this terrorist act was committed with the help of the ,ussian ederation# Ie

now clearly that the crew of this system were ,ussian citi6ens#>[4][117][11*][114]-e citedalleged recorded con&ersations in which separatists eCpressed satisfaction to ,ussian

intelligence agents that they %rought down an aeroplane#[1!]

$he separatists denied thatthe recorded tals were related to the crash of 9-17 and %lamed the rainiango&ernment for shooting down the plane#[15][1"][11]

n 1 July0 the ,ussian .efence 9inistry held a press conference to present its forensic

conclusions0 with two main findings# irstly0 @ust %efore the crash0 a rainian


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carrying# dragged around> and >thrown>0 %ut later stated the %odies were handled with more care

than originally estimated#[14][15!]n ! July !1"0 rainian emergency worers0o%ser&ed %y armed separatists0 %egan loading the remains of the passengers of 9-17 into

refrigerated railway wagonsfor transport and identification#[151]

n 1 July0 pro,ussian re%els allowed .utch in&estigators to eCamine the %odies# 'y

this time0 7 %odies had %een reco&ered#[15],emains left $ore6on a train on the e&eningof 1 July0 en route for Khari&to %e flown to the =etherlands for identification#[155][11!]

n 1 July0 9alaysian rime 9inister =a@i% ,a6a announced that the 9alaysian

go&ernment had reached a tentati&e agreement to get %ac the remains of the 9alaysians

who died in the crash0 following any necessary forensic wor#[111][15"]

:t was reported on 1 July that with * %odies and *7 %ody fragments found0 there werestill 1? %odies left unreco&ered#[152]

+eactions

Countries

Australia3 :n an address to the parliament0 Australian rime 9inister$ony

A%%ottsaid that the aircraft was downed %y a missile which seems to ha&e %een

launched %y ,ussian%aced re%els#[15?]9oreo&er0 Julie 'ishop0 the Australian
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9inister for oreign Affairs said in an inter&iew on an Australian tele&ision

programme that it was >eCtraordinary> that her ,ussian counterparts ha&e refused

to spea to her o&er the shootdown after the ,ussian am%assador was summonedto meet her#[15?]$he ,ussian go&ernment was critical of A%%ott8s response0

%randing his comments as >inappropriate> and an >accusation of guilt %ased on

speculation>0 as A%%ott was one of the first world leaders to pu%licly connect theshootdown to ,ussia#[157]A%%ott later critici6ed the reco&ery efforts as

>sham%olic>0 and >more lie a garden cleanup than a forensic in&estigation>0

while 'ishop pu%licly warned separatist forces against treating the &ictims8 %odiesas hostages#[15*]

9alaysia3 9alaysian .eputy oreign 9inister-am6ah Fainuddinsaid that

the foreign ministry would %e woring closely with the ,ussian and rainiango&ernments with regard to the incident#[154]rime 9inister =a@i% ,a6a later said

that 9alaysia was una%le to &erify the cause of the crash and demanded that the

perpetrators %e punished#[1"!]$he9alaysian go&ernmenthas declared to fly the

country national flagathalfmastfrom 1* July until 1 July#[1"1]

=etherlands3 .utch rime 9inister 9ar ,utteand King IillemAleCander&oiced their shoc at the crash#[1"][1"5]9inister of oreign Affairs rans

$immermanswill @oin the .utch in&estigation team sent to raine#[1""].utchgo&ernment %uildings flew the flag at halfmast on 1* July#[1"2]9usic was

cancelled and festi&ities were toned down during the last0 usually festi&e0 day of

the=i@megen 9arches#[1"?]n 1 July =etherlands officially opened war crimesin&estigation regarding the downing of the aircraft# $he country8s prosecutor is

said to %e already located in raine for that purpose# ,utte also threatened tough

action against ,ussia if it would a&oid assistance in the in&estigation#[1"7]

,ussia3 ,ussian resident Hladimir utinsaid responsi%ility for the crash

rests with >the country whose airspace the plane was in when it crashed>0 and that

>the disaster wouldn8t happen if the military action in southeast of raine wasnot reena%led>#[4][1"*][1"4]-e further said that it was important to refrain frommaing any hasty conclusions and politici6ed statements %efore the end of the

in&estigation# -e said that ,ussia was ready to pro&ide necessary assistance in

organi6ing and carrying out a thorough international inGuiry led %y :BA#[12!]n14 July ,ussian 9inistry of .efence announced >1! Guestions to the rainian

go&ernment>0 repeating accusations earlier pu%lished in ,ussian media#[121][12]

,ussian citi6ens %rought flowers to the .utch em%assy in 9oscow#[125]

raine3 rainian residentetro orosheno&owed support for a .utch

pro%e into the crash0 which he called an act of terrorism# -e offered condolences

for the air disaster in a telephone con&ersation with .utch rime 9inister9ar

,utte#[12"]

rainian citi6ens %rought flowers to the .utch and 9alaysianem%assies in Kie& in support#[122][12?]

nited Kingdom3 $he 'ritish go&ernment reGuested an emergency meeting

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HiceresidentJoe 'idensaid the plane appeared to ha&e %een deli%erately shot

down0 and &owed < assistance for the in&estigation into the crash#[1"4]rule out technical

assistance %y ,ussian personnel> in operating the system0 and that >,ussia mustend this war#>[5]resident %ama later stated that ,ussia should >pi&ot away from

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