> Date: 17 JUL 2014 > Time: 16:21 > Type: Boeing 777-2H6ER > Operator: Malaysia Airlines > Registration: 9M-MRD > C/n / msn: 28411/84 > First flight: 1997 > Engines: 2 Rolls-Royce Trent 892 > Crew: Fatalities: 15 / Occupants: 15 > Passengers: Fatalities: 283 / Occupants: 283 > Total: Fatalities: 298 / Occupants: 298 > Ground fatalities: > Airplane damage: Destroyed > Location: Hrabove (Ukraine) > Phase: En route > Nature: International Scheduled Passenger > Departure airport: Amsterdam-Schiphol International Airport (AMS) > Destination airport: Kuala Lumpur Subang International Airport (KUL) > Flightnumber: 17 > A Boeing 777-200 passenger plane, operating Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, crashed in the Ukraine, east of Donetsk. All 298 on board were killed. Flight MH17 departed the gate at Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport, the Netherlands at 12:14 hours local time, bound for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was airborne at 12:30 (10:30 UTC) from runway 36C and reached a cruising altitude of FL310 at 12:53 (10:53 UTC). Ninety minutes into the flight, at 12:01 UTC and just prior to entering Ukrainian airspace, the flight climbed to FL330. This altitude was maintained until last contact by ADS-B receivers of flight tracking websites, about 13:21 UTC. At the point of last contact it was flying 1000 feet above airspace that had been restricted as a result of ongoing fighting in the area. Malaysia Airlines reported that MH17 filed a flight plan requesting FL350 throughout Ukrainian airspace. However, the flight was instructed by Ukrainian air traffic control to fly at FL330. In a statement, the President of Ukraine said that he did not exclude that this aircraft was also shot down, referring to two Ukraine Air Force aircraft that were shot shot down in the region: a Su-25 and an An-26 transport plane three days prior to the Malaysian accident. U.S. President Obama said that the U.S. government believed that the plane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile fired from separatist-held territory in eastern Ukraine > AIRCRAFT PROFILE BOEING 777 > Last fatal accident involving a Boeing 777: 08-MAR-2014 Boeing 777-2H6ER 9M-MRO Malaysia Airlines - 239 fatalties (131 days ago) > Total number of hull-losses: 5 (of which 5 were accidents) > worst accident involving a Boeing 777 > Survival rate for all fatal Boeing 777 accidents: on average 36.0 % of all occupants survived fatal accident > COUNTRY PROFILE UKRAINE > Last fatal airliner/bizjet accident in Ukraine: 14-JUL-2014 Antonov 26 19 blue Ukraine Air Force - 2 fatalities (3 days ago) > Total number of fatal airliner/bizjet accidents: 45 > Total number of airliner/bizjet fatalities: 1567 > worst airliner/bizjet accident in Ukraine > The country is rated Cat. 1 in FAAs International Aviation Safety Assessment Program (IASA)
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