The Malaysia Airlines MH17 plane, believed to have had 280 passengers and 15 crew on board, was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
Mirror: Malaysia Airlines plane crash – Live updates as passenger jet comes down in Ukraine
A Malaysian passenger airliner with 295 people on board crashed in Ukraine near the Russian border, Interfax cited an aviation industry source as saying on July 17. It said the Boeing plane was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.