page_title: Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
section_title: Maps
hierarchical_section_title: Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 / Maps
caption_attribution_description: English&#58; Map of the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. Black line - the route of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 &#160;&#160; Extent of territory held by pro-Russian insurgents (at the moment of the crash) &#160;&#160; Territory previously held by the insurgents, but since retaken by the Ukrainian government &#160;&#160; Russian territory &#160;&#160; Approximate area of missile launch according to allegations of the Ukrainian Council of National Security and Defense (see the source for details) Circles are population centres - the larger the circle the larger the population. This incident map image could be recreated using vector graphics as an SVG file. This has several advantages; see&#160;Commons:Media for cleanup for more information. If&#160;an&#160;SVG&#160;form&#160;of&#160;this&#160;image is available, please upload it and afterwards replace this template with {{vector version available&#124;new image name}}. It is recommended to name the SVG file "Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash site.svg" - then the template Vector version available (or Vva) does not need the new image name parameter. Русский&#58; Место падения Boeing 777 в катастрофе от 17 июля. Источник данных (The New York Times) Черная линия - маршрут Boeing 777 &#160;&#160; Территория, контролируемая пророссийскими повстанцами (на момент катастрофы) &#160;&#160; Территория, которую вернули под свой контроль украинские власти &#160;&#160; Территория России &#160;&#160; Ориентировочное место запуска ракеты в соответствии с утверждениями правительства Украины (см. указанный источник данных) Круги это населенные пункты, чем больше круг - тем больше население.
context_page_description: Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down on 17 July 2014 while flying over eastern Ukraine. All 283 passengers and 15 crew were killed. Contact with the aircraft, a Boeing 777-200ER, was lost when it was about 50 km from the Ukraine–Russia border, and wreckage of the aircraft fell near Hrabove in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, 40 km from the border. It was Malaysia Airlines' second aircraft loss during 2014, after the disappearance of Flight 370 on 8 March. The shoot-down occurred in the War in Donbass, during the Battle in Shakhtarsk Raion, in an area controlled by pro-Russian rebels. The Ukrainian Air Force had suffered losses from increasingly sophisticated air defence weaponry. Immediately after contact with the aircraft was lost, the rebel militia in Donetsk claimed to have shot down a Ukrainian An-26 military transport airplane. When it became apparent that the wreckage that fell near Hrabove was from a civilian airliner, the separatists withdrew this claim and denied shooting down any aircraft.
caption: Presumed route ending in an area controlled by pro-Russian rebels according to The New York Times[72][i]
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