Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17, a Boeing 777 carrying 298 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, crashed in eastern Ukraine near the Russian border on July 17, 2014 after being shot down by a surface-to-air missile. Most passengers were Dutch, with many others from Malaysia, Australia, Indonesia, the United Kingdom and other countries. The crash occurred during a conflict between Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. An international investigation later determined that the plane was downed by a Russian-made Buk missile launched from separatist-controlled territory in Ukraine, but Russia denied the findings and blamed Ukraine.

1. Behind the
drowning of
Malaysian Airlines
MH-17

2. About the flight. . .
• Malaysian Airlines flight 17 otherwise known as MH-
17/MAS17 was a scheduled international passenger flight from
Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
• Flight 17 was a Boeing 777-2H6ER and carried a total of 298
peoples including 283 passengers and 15 crew members on the
day of incident.
• Among the passengers were delegates en route to the 20th
International AIDS Conference including Joep Lange former
president of International AIDS society.

3. • The plane also carried Dutch senator Willem Witteveen,
Australian author Liam Davison and Malaysian actress Shuba
Jay.
• At least twenty family groups were on board the aircraft,
and eighty of the passengers were children.

4. Passengers distribution according to
Nationality
Netherlands
Indonesia
Malaysia
United Kingdom
Germany
Philippines
New Zeland
Australia
Crew

5. How sophisticated was the
missile ?
• SA-11 can travel tens of thousands of feet into the air.
• It was packed with 46 pounds of explosives.
• SHRAPNEL MISSILE- denotes about 100-300 feet away
the target, creates a shrapnel cloud.

6. The Crash. . . . . .
• The flight lost contact near Hrabove in Donetsk Oblast ,
Ukraine, about 50 km from Ukraine – Russia border and
crashed near Torez.
• The aircraft is believed to have been brought down by a Buk
surface-to-air missile.
• Ukraine and the western governments believe that it had
been fired from the territory controlled by pro-Russian
separatists.

7. • Russia claims that the airliner was brought down by two
Ukrainian fighter jets which were shot down by the rebels near
the crash site.
• All 298 passengers and crew were killed in the tragedy.
• MH-17 is the deadliest airliner shootdown in history.
• The crash was Malaysia Airlines worst incident and its
second of the year, after the disappearance of flight 370(MH-
370).

10. Causes of the conflicts
• 2014 Crimean crisis is on of the major factor, it involves the
independence of Crimean Peninsula, and a conflict between
Ukraine and Russia over its control.
• Pro-Russian forces gradually began to take control over the
Crime as soon after the current government was dissolved and
Russia along with few other countries considered it
illegitimate.
• Crimean crisis was an outcome of the Ukrainian Revolution,
also a referendum on whether to join Russia had an official
turnout to be affirmative which later by UN General Assembly
was declared illegal.

11. • Ukraine and many western governments suggest that Russian
president Vladimir Putin is at the centre of this and also the
crash was a part of his plans to extend Russia.
•Russia suggests that the Ukrainian troops shot down the plane
as they misjudged it for Vladimir Putin’s plane.
• Many of the western government authorities believe that the
sophisticated missile that hit MH-17 could only be supplied by
the Russian government.
• Some reports may also suggest that plane was shot because of
an error of untrained rebels while practicing with the
sophisticated missile system.
Why MH-17 was shot?

12. Impact and Aftermath
• Immediately following the incident Ukraine closed all routes
in the Eastern Ukraine airspace at all altitudes.
• Airlines including Aeroflot, Transaero, Air France, Turkish
Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, Lufthansa and S7 Airlines announced
their intentions to instruct pilots to bypass Ukraine airspace,
• Malaysian Airlines decided to retire flight number MH-17, also
their shares dropped by 16%.
• There are reports suggesting the possessions of the corpses
have been removed and the evidence being destroyed.

13. Investigation …..
International team of forensic experts.
Investigators from Netherlands, Germany and many
other countries.
Investigators assembled at Kharkiv.

14. CONCLUSION
Russian Defense Ministry, Interfax asked Washington
to release the satellite imagery.

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