There were 298 people, including 154 Dutch nationals, on board the Malaysia Airlines flight that crashed in rebel-held east Ukraine on Thursday, an official from the carrier said.
"There were 283 passengers and 15 crew members on board the plane," Huib Gorter, Malaysian Airlines vice president, told reporters at a press conference at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport from where the doomed flight had taken off. "154 were Dutch, 27 were Australian," he added.
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