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Multiple sources cited a post on the [[VKontakte]] [[social networking service]] that was made by [[Igor Girkin]], commander of the [[Donbass People's Militia]], in which he acknowledged shooting down an aircraft at approximately the same time that the flight was reported to have crashed in eastern Ukraine in the same area near the Russian border.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Miller|first1=Christopher|title=Pro-Russian Rebel Commander: 'We Did Warn You — Do Not Fly in Our Sky'|url=http://mashable.com/2014/07/17/malaysia-airlines-ukraine-russia-rebel/}}</ref><ref name=BI>{{cite news|last1=STERBENZ|first1=CHRISTINA|title=Pro-Russian Rebel Leader: 'We Have Warned Them — Not To Fly In "Our Sky"' Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/igor-strelkov-comments-on-malaysia-mh17-2014-7#ixzz37mDNU3Be|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/igor-strelkov-comments-on-malaysia-mh17-2014-7|publisher=Business Insider|date=July 17, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=ZVEREV|first1=ANTON|title=Malaysian airliner downed in Ukraine war zone, 295 dead|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/17/us-ukraine-crisis-airplane-idUSKBN0FM22N20140717|publisher=Reuters|date=Thu Jul 17, 2014}}</ref><ref name=RFEL>{{cite news|title=Ukraine Separatist Social Media Site Claims Plane Downing|url=http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-separatist-leader-boasts-downing-plane/25460930.html|date=Friday, July 18, 2014}}</ref> The post specifically referenced how warnings were issued for planes not to fly in their airspace and the downing of an AN-26 which the Ukraine Crisis Media Center suggested was a case of misidentification with the MH 17.<ref name=BI/><ref name=RFEL/> This post was deleted later in the day and the account behind it claimed that Igor Girkin has no official account on this social service.<ref>{{cite news|title=Katastrofa malezyjskiego samolotu na granicy rosyjsko-ukraińskiej. Prawie 300 ofiar. Prezydent Ukrainy: Mógł zostać zestrzelony|url=http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/1,114912,16341438,Katastrofa_malezyjskiego_samolotu_na_granicy_rosyjsko_ukrainskiej_.html#MT#MT|accessdate=17 July 2014|publisher=Gazeta.pl|date=17 July 2014}}</ref><ref name=webevidence>CSMonitor.com - [http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2014/0717/Web-evidence-points-to-pro-Russia-rebels-in-downing-of-MH17 Web evidence points to pro-Russia rebels in downing of MH17]</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Ополченцы сообщили о сбитом Ан-26 на востоке Украины|url=http://lifenews.ru/news/136801|quote=On July 17 near the village of Rassypnoye over the Torez city in Donetsk region an An-26 transport plane of Ukrainian Air Force was taken down, said the militia. According to them, the plane crashed somewhere near the "Progress" mine, away from residential areas. According to one of the militias, at approximately 17:30 local time an An-26 flew over the city. It was hit by a rocket, there was an explosion and the plane went to the ground, leaving a black smoke. Debris fell from the sky|accessdate=17 July 2014|date=7 July 2014|language=ru}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/17/malaysia-airlines-plane-crashes-ukraine-live#block-53c81146e4b024b6f329c4ce|title=Malaysia Airlines plane MH17 crashes in Ukraine - live updates|newspaper=The Guardian|accessdate=17 July 2014|date=7 July 2014|first=Alan|last=Yuhas}}</ref>
Multiple sources cited a post on the [[VKontakte]] [[social networking service]] that was made by [[Igor Girkin]], commander of the [[Donbass People's Militia]], in which he acknowledged shooting down an aircraft at approximately the same time that the flight was reported to have crashed in eastern Ukraine in the same area near the Russian border.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Miller|first1=Christopher|title=Pro-Russian Rebel Commander: 'We Did Warn You — Do Not Fly in Our Sky'|url=http://mashable.com/2014/07/17/malaysia-airlines-ukraine-russia-rebel/}}</ref><ref name=BI>{{cite news|last1=STERBENZ|first1=CHRISTINA|title=Pro-Russian Rebel Leader: 'We Have Warned Them — Not To Fly In "Our Sky"' Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/igor-strelkov-comments-on-malaysia-mh17-2014-7#ixzz37mDNU3Be|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/igor-strelkov-comments-on-malaysia-mh17-2014-7|publisher=Business Insider|date=July 17, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=ZVEREV|first1=ANTON|title=Malaysian airliner downed in Ukraine war zone, 295 dead|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/17/us-ukraine-crisis-airplane-idUSKBN0FM22N20140717|publisher=Reuters|date=Thu Jul 17, 2014}}</ref><ref name=RFEL>{{cite news|title=Ukraine Separatist Social Media Site Claims Plane Downing|url=http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-separatist-leader-boasts-downing-plane/25460930.html|date=Friday, July 18, 2014}}</ref> The post specifically referenced how warnings were issued for planes not to fly in their airspace and the downing of an AN-26 which the Ukraine Crisis Media Center suggested was a case of misidentification with the MH 17.<ref name=BI/><ref name=RFEL/> This post was deleted later in the day and the account behind it claimed that Igor Girkin has no official account on this social service.<ref>{{cite news|title=Katastrofa malezyjskiego samolotu na granicy rosyjsko-ukraińskiej. Prawie 300 ofiar. Prezydent Ukrainy: Mógł zostać zestrzelony|url=http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/1,114912,16341438,Katastrofa_malezyjskiego_samolotu_na_granicy_rosyjsko_ukrainskiej_.html#MT#MT|accessdate=17 July 2014|publisher=Gazeta.pl|date=17 July 2014}}</ref><ref name=webevidence>CSMonitor.com - [http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2014/0717/Web-evidence-points-to-pro-Russia-rebels-in-downing-of-MH17 Web evidence points to pro-Russia rebels in downing of MH17]</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Ополченцы сообщили о сбитом Ан-26 на востоке Украины|url=http://lifenews.ru/news/136801|quote=On July 17 near the village of Rassypnoye over the Torez city in Donetsk region an An-26 transport plane of Ukrainian Air Force was taken down, said the militia. According to them, the plane crashed somewhere near the "Progress" mine, away from residential areas. According to one of the militias, at approximately 17:30 local time an An-26 flew over the city. It was hit by a rocket, there was an explosion and the plane went to the ground, leaving a black smoke. Debris fell from the sky|accessdate=17 July 2014|date=7 July 2014|language=ru}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/17/malaysia-airlines-plane-crashes-ukraine-live#block-53c81146e4b024b6f329c4ce|title=Malaysia Airlines plane MH17 crashes in Ukraine - live updates|newspaper=The Guardian|accessdate=17 July 2014|date=7 July 2014|first=Alan|last=Yuhas}}</ref>


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Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
9M-MRD, the Boeing 777-200ER involved in the incident, at Perth Airport in August 2010
Incident
Date17 July 2014 (2014-07-17)
SummaryUnder investigation. Fired at with surface-to-air missile.[1]
SiteNear Hrabove, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine
48°7′56″N 38°39′19″E / 48.13222°N 38.65528°E / 48.13222; 38.65528
Aircraft
Aircraft typeBoeing 777-200ER
OperatorMalaysia Airlines
Registration9M-MRD
Flight originAmsterdam Airport Schiphol
DestinationKuala Lumpur International Airport
Passengers283[2]
Crew15
Fatalities298 (all) (unconfirmed)[3]
Survivors0

Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17/MAS17)[a] was a scheduled international passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. On 17 July 2014, the Boeing 777 crashed[4][5] near Hrabove in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, approximately 40 km (25 mi) from the Ukraine–Russia border.[6] All 283 passengers and 15 crew members onboard the aircraft were killed.[7]

The crash occurred in the conflict zone of the ongoing Donbass insurgency. According to American intelligence officials, the plane was shot down, but the origin of the missile could not be confirmed.[8][9]

Ukrainian Interior Ministry advisor Anton Gerashchenko stated that the aircraft was shot down at an altitude of 10,000 m (33,000 ft) by a Buk surface-to-air missile.[10][11] Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called it an "act of terrorism."[12] In response, pro-Russian separatist rebels accused the Ukrainian government of shooting down the plane. Ukrainian security services claimed to have intercepted two phone conversations in which pro-Russian separatists discuss having just shot down a civilian plane.[13]

Crash

Route of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17

The aircraft departed from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol Gate G03 at 12:14 CEST (10:14 UTC). It was due to arrive at Kuala Lumpur International Airport 11 hours and 30 minutes later at 06:00, Friday 18 July MYT (22:00, 17 July UTC).

Malaysia Airlines released a statement saying "it received notification from Ukrainian ATC that it had lost contact with flight MH17 at 14.15 (UTC) at 30 km (19 mi) from [the] TAMAK waypoint, approximately 50 km (31 mi) from the Russia-Ukraine border."[14]

The plane crashed near the village of Hrabove just north of Torez, a city in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast, as it was approaching the Russian border.[6]

Flightradar24 reported that a Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-200ER (Flight SQ351) and an Air India Boeing 787-8 (Flight AI113) were each about 25 km (16 mi) away from the Malaysian airliner when it disappeared.[15]

Photographs from the site of the crash show scattered pieces of broken fuselage and engine parts, as well as bodies and passports.[16] [17]Some of the wreckage fell close to houses in Hrabove.[18]

Separatists have allegedly blocked rescue workers and police from entering the area, according to Ukraine, and have claimed that they have found the flight recorder of the airliner, which they said they would turn over to Russia.[19]


Timeline of flight

Elapsed (HH:MM) Time Event
UTC CEST (Amsterdam) EEST (Ukraine) MYT (Kuala Lumpur)
00:00 10:14 12:14 13:14 18:14 Flight 17 departs from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport
04:01 14:15 16:15 17:15 22:15 Aircraft disappears from Ukrainian radar

Passengers and crew

People on board by country[2][3][20]
Nationality Number
 Australia 27
 Belgium 4
 Canada 1
 Germany 4
 Indonesia 12
 Malaysia 43[b]
 Netherlands 154
 Philippines 3
 United Kingdom 9
 United States 23
Unconfirmed 18
Total 298

Malaysia Airlines has confirmed that there were 283 passengers and 15 crew members on board MH17.[21] There are assumed to be no survivors, though this has not been formally confirmed.[3][22] The Guardian reported that a number of delegates from the International AIDS Society were on the flight in transit to a conference being held in Melbourne, Australia.[23]

Cause

External audio
audio icon Pro-Russian rebels discuss the shooting down of the Malaysian Airlines airliner Intercepted phone call between rebels discussing which rebel militant group shot down the aircraft and initial reports it was a civilian aircraft. Audio (in Russian) released by Security Service of Ukraine with English/Russian subtitles.

Multiple sources cited a post on the VKontakte social networking service that was made by Igor Girkin, commander of the Donbass People's Militia, in which he acknowledged shooting down an aircraft at approximately the same time that the flight was reported to have crashed in eastern Ukraine in the same area near the Russian border.[24][25][26][27] The post specifically referenced how warnings were issued for planes not to fly in their airspace and the downing of an AN-26 which the Ukraine Crisis Media Center suggested was a case of misidentification with the MH 17.[25][27] This post was deleted later in the day and the account behind it claimed that Igor Girkin has no official account on this social service.[28][29][30][31]

The incident was preceded by the loss of a Ukrainian military Su-25 "Frogfoot" close air support aircraft the previous day and a Ukrainian military An-26 "Curl" transport aircraft three days earlier. Ukrainian government officials accused the Russian military of downing the aircraft, but a spokesman for Russia's Defence Ministry rejected those accusations as absurd.[32][33]

Ukrainian interior ministry official Anton Gerashchenko stated on Facebook that the airliner was "shot down with a surface-to-air missile by terrorists", referring to militants seeking to unite eastern Ukraine with Russia.[11] Later the Ukrainian President issued a different statement saying that Ukrainian authorities "don't exclude" the possibility that the plane was so shot down.[34] Later the Ukrainian government changed its statement about the plane being shot down to "not excluding" possibility that it was shot down.[34] This was denied by the rebels, stating that they have no weapons capable of shooting down planes at the height the Malaysian airliner was flying.[35]

An Associated Press reporter on Thursday saw seven rebel-owned tanks parked at a filling station outside the eastern Ukrainian town of Snizhne, a few miles southeast of the crash site. In the town, he also observed a Buk missile system, which can fire missiles up to an altitude of 22,000 metres (72,000 feet).[36] Vehicle-mounted 9K35 Strela-10 missiles were also filmed by Russian Lifenews team near Donetsk.[37] On 29 June, NTV reported that separatists had access to a Buk after taking control of a Ukrainian air defence base.[38] On the same day, the Donetsk People's Republic claimed possession of such a system in a since-deleted tweet.[39]

A defence expert later reported that to shoot down an aircraft at such a high altitude would have required a long-range surface-to-air missile possibly assisted by radar or by an air-to-air missile from another aircraft.[40] The Buk surface-to-air missile system uses radar guidance.

According to The Wall Street Journal the U.S. agencies are divided over whether the plane was downed by the Russian military or by pro-Russia separatists, who may lack the expertise required. Still they insist that "All roads lead to the Russians to some degree"[41].

A source from Russia's Agency Rosaviatsia said the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine had closed its airspace over eastern Ukraine because of what it called "anti-terrorist operation[s]."[42] However, shortly after the crash the International Air Transport Association wrote in a statement: "Based on the information currently available it is believed that the airspace that the aircraft was traversing was not subject to restrictions."[43]

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) published an alleged wiretap of separatist commanders reporting that a civilian airliner had been shot down.[44][45] Flight 17 was allegedly shot down by a group of Russian-backed Cossack militants near the village of Chornukhine (Ukrainian: Чорнухине, Luhansk Oblast, some 80 km (50 mi) north-west of Donetsk, according to recordings of intercepted phone calls between Russian military intelligence officers and members of rebel groups.[46]

Aircraft

Flight 17 was operated with a Boeing 777-2H6ER, serial number 28411, registration 9M-MRD. The 84th Boeing 777 produced, it first flew on 17 July 1997 and was delivered new to Malaysia Airlines on 29 July 1997.[47] The aircraft was powered by two Rolls-Royce Trent 800 engines, and configured to carry 282 passengers.[47]

The Boeing 777, introduced in 1995, is generally regarded by aviation experts as having a safety record that is one of the best of any commercial aircraft. Since its first commercial flight on 7 June 1995, there have been only four other serious accidents involving hull loss: British Airways Flight 38 in January 2008; a cockpit fire in a parked EgyptAir 777-200 at Cairo International Airport in 2011; and Asiana Airlines Flight 214 in July 2013, in which three people died. Another Malaysia Airlines 777, Flight 370 (registration 9M-MRO), went missing on 8 March 2014 and was still being searched for at the time of Flight 17's crash.

Response

As a result of the incident, Lufthansa, Air France, Turkish Airlines, Transaero, Delta Air Lines, British Airways, Aeroflot, Air India, Jet Airways, and KLM began to avoid eastern Ukrainian airspace[48][49][50][51] or Ukraine entirely.[52] A NOTAM informed U.S. airlines not to fly in the Ukraine area, while UTair, Alitalia, and Virgin Atlantic also announced they will reroute their flights. The United Kingdom's Department for Transport ordered flights already airborne to bypass south-eastern parts of Ukraine, including advising pilots around the world to plan routes avoiding the area.[53]

The airspace above Donetsk Oblast was closed by Ukraine on 8 July 2014 except for aircraft in transit flying over 7,900 m (25,900 ft).[54]

International reaction

Ukraine Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko vowed support for a Dutch probe into the crash, which he called an "act of terrorism". He reportedly offered condolences for the air disaster in a telephone conversation with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte.[55]

Malaysia Malaysian Deputy Foreign Minister Hamzah Zainuddin said the next day in Malaysia that the foreign ministry would be working closely with the Russian and Ukraine governments in regards to the incident.[56]

Netherlands Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte stated "I am deeply shocked by the dramatic news regarding the crash of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur over Ukrainian grounds". He further announced to interrupt his holiday to coordinate the Dutch response.[57] Dutch government buildings will fly the flag half-mast on 18 July.[58]

Australia Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said that he could not confirm any reports regarding the incident so far but said that if the incident was proven to be a shoot-down, it would be a crime and the perpetrators would be brought to justice. The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs said the incident was a huge tragedy and that any Australians who were concerned about family members' well being should try to contact them directly, it also said it was awaiting confirmation on the number of Australian passengers on board.[59]

Russia Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his deepest condolences to Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, the Malaysian people and the relatives of the victims.[60] He said responsibility for the crash rests with Ukraine, the airspace of which the plane was in when it crashed, and suggested the disaster was related to the conflict in Donbass.[61] His spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the allegations of Russian involvement were "stupidity" and added of the possibility of sanctions as a result of the incident by the United States: "The United States has recently been conducting a very non-constructive policy, and their actions are very unpredictable."[62]

United States United States President Barack Obama said, "The U.S. will offer any assistance we can to determine what happened and why. As a country our thoughts and prayers are with all the families of the passengers, wherever they call home."[62] Vice President Joe Biden said the plane appeared to have been deliberately "blown out of the sky", and vowed U.S. assistance for the investigation into the crash.[61]

United Kingdom The United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office issued a statement that read it is "urgently working to establish what has happened".[32] Prime Minister David Cameron said he was "shocked and saddened by the Malaysian air disaster".[32] The United Kingdom has requested an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council.[63]

See also

Similar incidents

Notes

  1. ^ MH is the IATA designator and MAS is the ICAO designator. The flight is also marketed as KLM Flight 4103 (KL4103/KLM4103) through a codeshare agreement.
  2. ^ Including 15 crew

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