ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />A Malaysian airliner was brought down in eastern Ukraine on Thursday, killing all 295 people aboard and sharply raising the stakes in a conflict between Kiev and pro-Moscow rebels that has set Russia and the West at daggers drawn.<br/> <br />At a news conference at Schiphol airport on Thursday (July 17), Malaysia Airlines' European chief Huib Gorter detailed the nationalities of the passengers from flight MH17 which were known at this stage.<br/> <br />"Just to give you a bit of the background on nationalities, as we know at this point of time, 154 Dutch passengers were on board the aircraft, 27 Australian passengers, 23 Malaysian, 11 Indonesians, 6 from the UK, 4 from Germany, 4 from Belgium, 3 from the Philippines and one Canadian. The rest we have not yet identified the nationality," he told reporters.
