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Book SynopsisOn 17 July 2014, Malaysian Airlines MH17 was shot out of the sky above Ukraine. Aboard were 298 people, 38 of whom were Australians. No one survived.
Subsequently it was shown that the airliner was almost certainly hit by a Buk surface-to-air missile fired by Ukrainian separatists aided by the Russian military. The debris from the plane's disintegration mid-air was spread over 50 square kilometres, but for weeks rescue teams and investigators were denied access. The Russians have refused to take any responsibility for the deaths.
This is the story of some of the people who boarded that fatal flight and the conflict below them that was doomed to destroy their lives and the happiness of the people they left behind. The fullest account yet published, it is also the story of a continuing clamour for justice. Unsettling, compelling and revealing, Shot Down will provoke both outrage that this criminal act could have happened and deep sadness for the lives lost.
'A compelling account of one of the most appalling aviation atrocities of our time.' JIM EAMES, author of Courage in the Skies
Table of ContentsMap: Route taken by MH17
Map: MH17 debris sites
Chapter 1 Amsterdam, 17 July 2014
Chapter 2 Ukraine, November 2013
Chapter 3 17 July 2014
Chapter 4 Ukraine, November-December 2013
Chapter 5 17 July 2014
Chapter 6 Ukraine, January-March 2014
Chapter 7 17 July 2014
Chapter 8 Crimea, February-March 2014
Chapter 9 17 July 2014
Chapter 10 Ukraine, March 2014
Chapter 11 17 July 2014
Chapter 12 Ukraine, June-July 2014
Chapter 13 17 July 2014
Chapter 14 Ukraine, 17 July 2014
Chapter 15 17 July 2014
Chapter 16 Chaos
Chapter 17 Outrage
Chapter 18 Bringing them home
Chapter 19 The Buk
Chapter 20 The wreckage
Chapter 21 2015
Chapter 22 2016
Chapter 23 2017
Chapter 24 2018
Chapter 25 Empty chairs
Appendix List of victims
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
