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.
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