Ukraine says Malaysian airliner shot down, 295 dead: agency

[Indischer]

Bloody Hell! Just when you thought it was safe to fly Malaysia Airlines again, now that everyone had conveniently forgotten about MH370 and moved on......

 

[Mr.S.Singh]

Is the shooting down true? At that stage of the flight it would have been flying at about 35000 feet.

news here are quoting Russian news agency, which says the plane has been shot down

 

[sree45]

Malaysia Airlines now have a hell of a lot of explaining to do. RIP to the departed.



Is the shooting down true? At that stage of the flight it would have been flying at about 35000 feet.

Some sources are reporting that the plane was shot down at an altitude of 10KMS

 

[rockstar08]

WTF ? now they will shoot passenger planes ?

 

[SwAggeR]

But why a civilian plane ?? Person behind it must be brought to book.

 

[Victory]

295 passengers killed

 

[majesticpankaj]

In june, i was travelling from melbourne to bangalore.. my wife didn't allow me to book malaysian airline. This is such a horrible news. RIP

 

[Zabaniyah]

Oh, they gotta be kidding...
BBC News - Malaysia airliner crashes in east Ukraine

Anton Herashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine's interior minister, was quoted by the Associated Press as saying the plane had been hit by a missile at an altitude of 10,000m (33,000ft).

A number of military planes have been shot down by missiles in recent weeks over eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian separatist rebels have been fighting government forces.

Uh-oh...

 

[majesticpankaj]

Malaysia Airlines plane with 295 on board crashes in Ukraine near Russian border

KIEV: A Malaysian Airlines plane with 295 people on board crashed in Ukraine near the Russian border on Thursday, the Interfax news agency cited an aviation industry source as saying.

The Boeing plane was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, it said. Reuters could not immediately confirm the report.

The Interfax report said the plane came down 50 km (20 miles) short of entering Russian airspace. It "began to drop, afterwards it was found burning on the ground on Ukrainian territory," the unnamed source said.

The plane appeared to have come down in a region of military action where Ukrainian government forces are battling pro-Russian separatists.

Ukraine interior ministry adviser says 280 passengers, 15 crew dead in crash, Interfax reported.

A separate unnamed source in the Ukrainian security apparatus, quoted by Interfax, said the plane disappeared from radar at a height of 10,000 metres after which it came down near the town of Shakhtyorsk.

The Malaysian plane was brought down by a Buk Ground-to-Air missile, the interior minister adviser said, quoted by Interfax.
Malaysian Airlines has confirmed it has lost contact with flight MH17. The airline's Twitter feed confirms last known position of the aircraft was over Ukrainian airspace.

Malaysia Airlines plane with 295 on board crashes in Ukraine near Russian border - The Times of India

 

[Pangu]

This is crazy, why wasn't the airliner diverted away from the hot zone?

 

[MarkusS]

But why a civilian plane ?? Person behind it must be brought to book.

easy answer. russia supplier terrorists with technology to shot down airplanes. Those are stupid morons like the self proclaimed mayor of slawansk. My guess is that ome of those morons simply made a mistake. That happens when you give technology to those morons. Now it will get interesting. I feel sorry for the victims. The brak up happemed at cruisimg altitude. I hope the hull did crack early so people got unconcious and did not suffer all the way down.

 

[senses]

Still no confirmation.

 

[IR1907]

Looks like russian terrorists shot it down. According to "Der Spiegel", the airplane was shot down at cruising altitude.

Anyone who pulled the trigger should be ashamed, literally. There is nothing more cowardly than shooting a defenceless passenger airplane with almost 300 people on board.

 

[khanboy007]

London: A Malaysian Boeing 777 en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur has crashed in eastern Ukraine near Donetsk, according to online reports.

On board were 280 passengers and 15 crew, Russia’s Interfax news agency said.

Anti-Russian activists in the Ukraine claimed it was shot down over territory controlled by pro-Russian separatists.

Interfax quoted a source in aviation circles saying the flight was about 80 kilometres from Russian airspace.

The plane wreckage was said to be on fire.

Euromaidan PR linked to several videos showing thick plumes of smoke coming from an unidentified site.

Ukarine’s Espreso TV reported that pro-Russian militants had recently received anti-aircraft weapons capable of shooting down planes at high altitudes.

However there was not yet any official confirmation of the crash, or its cause.


Read more: Malaysian Airlines plane crashes in east Ukraine near Russian border: reports

here is the video (as mentioned in the report)

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yes it's a boeing 777 and it was shot down !!!!! but yet no confirmation

first mh370 and now this too..

very sad to hear of this !!!!!

 

[IndoCarib]

A Malaysian Airlines passenger plane with 295 aboard was shot down by a surface-to-air missile in Ukraine near the Russian border, according to multiple reports.

The airline, the same one whose plane disappeared over the Indian Ocean in March, confirmed only that "an incident" had occurred involving the Boeing 777, which was en route to Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam.

“Malaysia Airlines has lost contact of MH17 from Amsterdam," read a tweet from the airline. "The last known position was over Ukrainian airspace. More details to follow,” read a tweet from Malaysia Airlines’ account.

Multiple reports said the plane was shot down at cruising altitude. Anton Gerashenko, an adviser to Ukraine's Interior Minister told The Associated press that the plane, carrying 280 passengers and 15 crew people onboard, was shot down.

Gerashenko says on his Facebook page the plane was flying at an altitude of 33,000 feet when it was hit Thursday by a missile fired from a Buk launcher. A similar launcher was seen by Associated Press journalists near the eastern Ukrainian town of Snizhne earlier Thursday.
The adviser also told Russian news agency Interfax that all onboard have been killed.

On March 8, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew on a route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, disappeared somehwere over the ocean. It has not been found.

Malaysia Airlines passenger jet reportedly shot down in Ukraine | Fox News