In Donetsk Oblast , north of Torez , near the Russian border , Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 , flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 283 passengers and 15 crew members on board , was hit by a surface-to-air missile at an altitude of and crashed . Both the Ukrainian military and the opposition have stated that they are not responsible for the incident . The White House confirmed that the United States is investigating what happened and that it is believed the plane involved was a Boeing 777 . Malaysian Deputy Foreign Minister Hamzah Zainuddin said that the foreign ministry would be working closely with the Russian and Ukrainian governments regarding the incident
Flight MH17
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
Timeline of the war in Donbass (July–September 2014)