ABC News: Malaysia Airlines retires MH17 flight number

By ABC News.

Published July 20, 2014 at 7:52 pm

Malaysia Airlines flight recorders, the key pieces of evidence, that would enable determine the cause of deadly air crash killing nearly 300 civilians, might already be in posession of separatist groups.

Photo by Anastasia Vlasova

Malaysia Airline says it is retiring the flight number of the plane that was shot down over Ukraine.

The carrier said in a statement Sunday that beginning Friday, it will no longer use MH17 to identify any of its Amsterdam-Kuala Lumpur flights. It said it is doing so "out of respect for our crew and passengers" who were aboard the plane.

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