[PAR] [TLE] Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 [SEP] Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17/MAS17) 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 about 50 km from the Ukraine–Russia border and wreckage of the aircraft landed near Torez in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, 40 km from the border.  The crash occurred in an area controlled by the Donbass People's Militia during the Battle in Shakhtarsk Raion, part of the ongoing war in Donbass.  The crash is the deadliest airliner shootdown, eighth-deadliest aviation disaster, and was Malaysia Airlines' second aircraft loss during 2014 after the disappearance of Flight 370 on March 8. [PAR] [TLE] Eliot Higgins [SEP] Eliot Higgins (born 1979), who previously used the pseudonym Brown Moses, is a British citizen journalist and blogger, known for using open sources and social media to investigate the Syrian Civil War, 2014–15 Russian military intervention in Ukraine and the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.  He first gained mainstream media attention by identifying weapons in uploaded videos from the Syrian conflict.
[PAR] [TLE] Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 [ SEP ] Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 ( MH17/MAS17 ) 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 about 50 km from the Ukraine – Russia border and wreckage of the aircraft landed near Torez in Donetsk Oblast , Ukraine , 40 km from the border . The crash occurred in an area controlled by the Donbass People 's Militia during the Battle in Shakhtarsk Raion , part of the ongoing war in Donbass . The crash is the deadliest airliner shootdown , eighth - deadliest aviation disaster , and was Malaysia Airlines ' second aircraft loss during 2014 after the disappearance of Flight 370 on March 8 . [PAR] [TLE] Eliot Higgins [ SEP ] Eliot Higgins ( born 1979 ) , who previously used the pseudonym Brown Moses , is a British citizen journalist and blogger , known for using open sources and social media to investigate the Syrian Civil War , 2014–15 Russian military intervention in Ukraine and the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 . He first gained mainstream media attention by identifying weapons in uploaded videos from the Syrian conflict .
How many people died in the downing of the flight investigated by Eliot Higgins, the British citizen journalist and blogger?
How many people died in the downing of the flight investigated by Eliot Higgins , the British citizen journalist and blogger ?
283 passengers and 15 crew
283 passengers and 15 crew