Three Filipinos aboard downed Malaysian plane

(UPDATED 7:23 a.m.) Three Filipinos were among the passengers of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 that U.S. claimed was shot down in Ukraine late Thursday, airline and Philippine government officials confirmed.

“There were 283 passengers and 15 crew members on board the plane,” Malaysia Airlines Europe vice president Huib Gorter told reporters at a press briefing at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport from which the plane departed.

At least 154 people on the plane were Dutch. Other nationalities identified were 27 Australians, 23 Malaysians (including all 15 crew members), 11 Indonesians, four British, four Germans, four Belgians, three Filipinos and one Canadian.