Monday, 3 November 2014
MH17
Malaysia
Airlines Flight 17 (MH17/MAS17) was a scheduled international passenger flight
from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that crashed on 17 July 2014, presumed to have
been shot down, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board. The Boeing
777-200ER airliner lost contact about 50 km (31 mi) from the Ukraine–Russia
border and crashed near Torez in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, 40 km (25 mi) from
the border, over territory controlled by pro-Russian separatists. The crash
occurred during the Battle in Shakhtarsk Raion, part of the ongoing war in
Donbass, in an area controlled by the Donbass People's Militia.
MH370
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
March
2014, while flying from Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia to Beijing
Capital International Airport, People's Republic of China. Air traffic control
received the aircraft's last message at 01:20 MYT (17:20 UTC, 7 March) when it
was over the South China Sea, less than an hour after takeoff. It was last
plotted by military radar at 02:15 over the Andaman Sea, 320 kilometres (200
mi) northwest of Penang state in northwestern Malaysia. At 07:24, Malaysia
Airlines (MAS) reported the flight missing. The aircraft, a Boeing 777-200ER,
was carrying 12 Malaysian crew members and 227 passengers from 15 nations.
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