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Passengers

239 people. This page holds the official nationality summary, the crew of record, the twenty Freescale staff, and the two Iranian men who boarded on stolen European passports.

9M-MRO taking off from Istanbul in 2012
9M-MRO · Ercan Karakas · Istanbul · 23 January 2012

Souls

239

Passengers

227

Crew

12

Nationality summary

Passenger counts as commonly published from the official list. Crew of twelve were Malaysian and are not in the passenger column. Two Iranian men travelled on stolen Italian and Austrian passports — they are the Italy and Austria lines below, later identified by name. China, Russia and Iran appear here as facts of who was on board, not as a finding.

  • China153
  • MalaysiaPassengers; crew of 12 were also Malaysian38
  • Indonesia7
  • Australia6
  • India5
  • France4
  • United States3
  • Canada2
  • New Zealand2
  • Ukraine2
  • Russia1
  • Netherlands1
  • Taiwan1
  • ItalyStolen-passport traveller, later identified as Iranian1
  • AustriaStolen-passport traveller, later identified as Iranian1

Crew of record

Also in the passenger file

Open the Freescale theory

17 people are named in this desk because they are investigators, crew, or public advocates — not because a passenger list has been replicated here.