Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 ( MH17 ) was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down Use_firearm on 17 July 2014 while flying Self_motion over eastern Ukraine .

According to the JIT , the Buk that was used Using originated Coming_to_be from the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade of the Russian Federation , and had been transported Sending from Russia on the day of the crash , fired Use_firearm from a field in a rebel-controlled area , and the launcher returned Arriving to Russia after it was used Using to shoot down Use_firearm MH17 .

In 2014 , American intelligence had also said Telling that Russia had supplied Supply the Buk missile to pro-Russian insurgents , and that the insurgents most plausibly shot down Use_firearm MH17 in error , after misidentifying it as a military aircraft .