On 17 July 2014 flight MH17 crashed in eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board.


The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER travelling from Amsterdam (the Netherlands) to Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), crashed in a village in the Donetsk region.

The victims’ nationalities are given below. Please note that the passenger list states just one nationality per person but some of the victims held dual nationality.

  • The Netherlands: 196
  • Malaysia: 43
  • Australia: 27
  • Indonesia: 12 
  • United Kingdom: 10
  • Belgium: 4
  • Germany: 4
  • Philippines: 3
  • Canada: 1
  • New Zealand: 1