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Jerome Sessini has been covering the conflict between the Ukrainian Government and pro-Russian separatist rebels near the eastern border with Russia. Once he’d found out that a civilian passenger airliner had gone down in the region, Sessini made his way to the crash site.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17/MAS17) [b] was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down by Russian-backed forces [4][5][6][7] with a Buk 9M38 surface-to-air missile on 17 July 2014, while flying over eastern Ukraine. All 283 passengers and 15 crew were killed. [8] .
16/63 Flames rise from part of the wreckage of the plane after it was shot down over Ukraine, near the village of Hrabove, in eastern Ukraine. Picture: AP. 17/63 Bags are pictured at the site of the crash of MH17, near the town of Shaktarsk in rebel-held east Ukraine. Picture: AFP.
The Shanghai Y-10 or Yun-10 (Chinese: 运-10; lit. 'Transporter-10') is a four engined narrow-body jet airliner developed in the 1970s by the Shanghai Aircraft Research Institute. The plane used Boeing's 707-320C as reference, designed according to Federal Aviation Regulation (Part 25, 1970 edition).
This is a list of aircraft shootdowns, dogfights and other incidents during wars since World War II.
28 paź 2024 · Malaysia Airlines flight 17 crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014. All 298 people on board, most of whom were citizens of the Netherlands, died in the crash. A Dutch inquiry determined that the aircraft was shot down by a Russian-made surface-to-air missile.
17 lis 2022 · More than eight years after a missile slammed into Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board, three men have been found guilty of murder and intentionally...
