No Americans Listed So Far In Malaysian Airlines Accounting Of Passengers

People walk amongst the debris, at the crash site of a passenger plane near the village of Grabovo, Ukraine, Thursday, July 17, 2014. A Ukrainian official said a passenger plane carrying 295 people was shot down Thu... People walk amongst the debris, at the crash site of a passenger plane near the village of Grabovo, Ukraine, Thursday, July 17, 2014. A Ukrainian official said a passenger plane carrying 295 people was shot down Thursday as it flew over the country and plumes of black smoke rose up near a rebel-held village in eastern Ukraine. Malaysia Airlines tweeted that it lost contact with one of its flights as it was traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur over Ukrainian airspace. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky) MORE LESS
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Malaysian Airlines on Thursday released a partial accounting of passengers aboard the commercial airliner that crashed in eastern Ukraine.

According to CNN, Malaysian Airlines did not list any Americans on the flight, but there were 47 passengers whose nationalities had not been released.

The State Department told CNN that they have not yet confirmed whether there were any Americans on board the plane on Thursday.

According to Malaysian Airlines, all of the crew members were Malaysian.

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer read off the list of nationalities the airline said were on board the plane:

But among the others, they list some of the other nationalities: 154 Dutch, 27 Australian, 23 Malaysian, 11 Indonesian, six from the United Kingdom, four from Germany, four from Belgium, three from the Philippines, one Canadian. Forty-seven other passengers, they are not identified (sic) their nationalities.

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