Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board, most of them Dutch citizens. The Boeing 777 was hit by a missile from a Buk system while flying over territory held by pro-Russian separatists during the war in the Donbas. The Dutch Safety Board concluded that it was destroyed by a warhead of this type, and an international Joint Investigation Team traced the missile launcher to a Russian military unit. In 2022 a Dutch court convicted three men in absentia for their role in the shooting down. Russia has denied any involvement.
Before and after
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- 13 July 2014Death of Nadine Gordimer
- 17 July 2014Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 shootdown
- 17 July 2014Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
- 11 August 2014Death of Robin Williams
- 17 August 2014Discovery of C/2014 Q2
- 5 September 2014Construction of Lukoil Arena
- from 13 September 2014 to 26 January 2015Siege of Kobanî
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