Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 ( MH17 ) was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down on 17 July 2014 while flying over eastern Ukraine , killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board . Contact with the aircraft , a Boeing 777-200ER , was lost when it was about from the Ukraine – Russia border and wreckage of the aircraft fell near Hrabove in Donetsk Oblast , Ukraine , from the border . The shoot-down occurred in the War in Donbass , during the Battle of Shakhtarsk , in an area controlled by pro-Russian rebels . The crash was Malaysia Airlines ' second aircraft loss during 2014 after the disappearance of Flight 370 on 8 March
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