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MH17 Crash
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will post information about the MH17 Crash on July 17, 2014 from Wikipedia and
other links.
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9M-MRD, the aircraft shot down, photographed
in October 2011
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Shootdown
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Date
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17 July 2014
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Summary
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Site
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Near Hrabove,
Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine
48°8′17″N 38°38′20″ECoordinates: 48°8′17″N 38°38′20″E |
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Passengers
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283
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Crew
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15
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Fatalities
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298
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Survivors
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0
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Aircraft type
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Operator
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9M-MRD
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Flight origin
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Destination
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Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17/MAS17) was a
scheduled international passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that
crashed on 17 July 2014 after being 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.
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. According to American and German intelligence
sources, the plane was shot down by pro-Russian insurgents using a Buk surface-to-air
missile fired from the territory which they controlled. The Russian
government blamed the Ukrainian government. The Dutch Safety Board
is currently leading an investigation into the incident and issued a
preliminary report on 9 September 2014; a final accident report is expected in
October 2015.
A
Bellingcat analysis of open-source evidence
indicated that Russian-backed separatists were in control of a Buk missile
launcher on 17 July and transported it from Donetsk to Snizhne while three
eyewitnesses told the BBC that such a missile launcher was operated by a crew
that seemed to be Russian in the area on that date. US sources attributed the
downing to a missile fired from separatist-controlled territory, with their
judgement based on sensors that traced the path of the missile, analysis of
shrapnel patterns in the wreckage, voice print analysis of separatists'
conversations in which they claimed credit for the strike, as well as photos
and other data from social media sites.
Immediately
after the crash, a post appeared on the VKontakte social media profile attributed
to Russian Colonel Igor Girkin, leader of
the Donbass separatists, claiming responsibility for shooting down an AN-26,
but after it became clear that a civilian aircraft had been shot down, the
separatists denied any involvement, and the post was taken down. Russia has
said that Ukraine "bears full, total responsibility" for the crash
because it happened in Ukrainian airspace. The Ukrainian government states the
missile was launched by "Russian professionals and coordinated from
Russia". In June 2015, Buk manufacturer, the Russian concern Almaz-Antey
announced that MH17 had been downed by a 9М38М1 Buk-M1 missile.
Malaysia
said intelligence reports on the downing of MH17 were "pretty
conclusive", but more investigation was necessary to be certain that a
surface-to-air missile brought down the plane, after which they would look at
the criminal side. The German Federal Intelligence Service reportedly
concluded that the plane was shot down by pro-Russian separatists using a
captured Ukrainian Buk system.
CT scans of
MH17 victims showed "non-aircraft metal" and on 19 December 2014 the Ukrainian security service said that
some of the bodies contained metal fragments that indicated the plane was shot
down by a surface-to-air missile. Preliminary evidence from the ongoing Dutch
investigation has concluded that the plane was most likely downed by a Russian
unit that was probably manned by a Russian crew, though other possibilities
have not yet been ruled out.
The
crash of Flight 17 was the fifth Boeing 777 hull loss.
The crash was Malaysia Airlines' worst incident and its second of the year,
after the disappearance of Flight 370 four months earlier.
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The Phone Calls after the MH17 Crash.
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