Gerda Lahenda
Age: 82
Summary: Indonesian pensioner
who was among one of 298 passengers and crew members involved in
the horrific Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 aerial disaster after the
doomed Boeing 777 aircraft was allegedly shot down by a sophisticated
surface-to-air missile reportedly
fired by Moscow-backed Ukrainian separatists while flying from Amsterdam, the
Netherlands to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as the plane crashed over eastern Ukraine in the
war-torn area controlled by pro-Russian rebel groups near the
Ukraine-Russia border when the crash occurred in the conflicted zone of
the ongoing Donbass insurgency, in which it became the second-deadliest
aviation incident of the year in Malaysia Airlines' history after the
disappearance of Flight 370 in March 2014 while en route from Kuala
Lumpur to Beijing.
Cause of Death: Injuries sustained in a plane crash
Born: December 22, 1931
Died: July 27, 2014
Location: Hrabove, Ukraine
