On 17 July 2014, Flight 17 departed from
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol Gate G03 at 12:14
CEST (10:14
UTC)and was due to arrive at
Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 06:00, 18 July
MYT (22:00, 17 July UTC).
Eurocontrol, which oversees the filing of all
IFR flight plans in the region, stated that at the time of the incident the aircraft was in unrestricted airspace at
flight level 330 (33,000 feet or 10,060 metres). Malaysia Airlines stated that Ukrainian
ATC had lost contact with the airliner at 14:15 UTC, 30 km (19 mi) from the
TAMAK waypoint at
47°51′24″N 39°13′6″E, which is on the
Russian border and that the aircraft's emergency locator beacon was at
48°07′23″N 38°31′33″E.
The last transponder transmission recorded by
Flightradar24 was at 13:21 and placed it at
48.0403°N 38.7728°E and 33,000 feet (10,000 m), heading 118° at 490 knots
Flightradar24 also reported that a
Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-200ER (Flight SQ351) and an
Air India Boeing 787-8 (Flight AI113) were each about 25 km (16 mi) away from the Malaysian airliner when it disappeared.
The aircraft crashed outside
Hrabove, near
Torez in eastern Ukraine's
Donetsk Oblast.The fireball on impact is believed to have been captured on video.Photographs from the site of the crash show scattered pieces of broken
fuselage and
engine parts, bodies, and passports. Some of the wreckage fell close to houses in Hrabove. Dozens of bodies fell into crop fields, and some fell into houses.