Flight control zone boundaries Airways

Path of Flight 17 The plane was on Airway L980, which had remained open above 32,000 feet during the conflict in Ukraine.

Before Flight 17 took off, Russia closed more than a dozen airways at various altitudes.

Crash site

Donetsk

UKRAINE

Rostov

The route that Flight 17 would have followed was only open above 32,000 feet.

Zaporizhzhya

Mariupol

Dnipropetrovsk

Kiev

Odessa

Simferopol

Sea of Azov

RUSSIA

Odessa

Restricted flight areas before Thursday’s crash

Black Sea

crimea

By the Federal Aviation Administration

40 MILES

By Eurocontrol