A Malaysian Airlines passenger plane has reportedly been shot down on the Russian-Ukraine border, apparently killing all 295 people on board. Flight MH17, which was carrying 280 passengers and 15 crew, was flying between Amsterdam and Kuala Lumpar after taking off leaving at lunchtime today. The Interfax news agency reported that the aircraft went missing near Donetsk, where pro-Russian rebels have been fighting Ukrainian government forces for several weeks. TV pictures from the scene showed a pall of smoke billowing into the sky apparently from the stricken aircraft. It is believed the plane was struck by BUK surface-to-air missile at 33,000ft around 20 miles before entering Russian airspace. A Malaysian Airlines passenger jet is thought to have been shot down over the Ukraine / Russian border Malaysian passenger plane crashes on Russia/Ukraine border The shoulder-launched Russian-made BUK surface-to-air missile can be packed into a golf bag and assembled and fired very rapidly by one person with minimal training. Defence experts have expressed fears in the past they could be used to target at civil aircraft. A similar launcher was seen by Associated Press journalists near the eastern Ukrainian town of Snizhne earlier today. Malaysian Airlines said they have no information about any survivors. In a tweet, the airline said: 'Malaysia Airlines has lost contact of MH17 from Amsterdam. The last known position was over Ukrainian airspace. More details to follow.' The crash comes three months after the mysterious disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 which is though to have crashed into the Indian Occean. Two weeks ago, investigators say what little evidence they have to work with suggests the plane was deliberately diverted thousands of kilometres from its scheduled route before eventually plunging into the Indian Ocean.
The search was narrowed in April after a series of acoustic pings thought to be from the plane's black box recorders were heard along a final arc where analysis of satellite data put its last location.
But a month later, officials conceded the wreckage was not in that concentrated area, some 1,000 miles off the northwest coast of Australia, and the search area would have to be expanded. The next phase of the search is expected to start in August and take a year, covering some 60,000 sq km at a cost of AU$60 million ($56 million) or more. The search is already the most expensive in aviation history. The new priority search area is around 2,000km west of Perth, a stretch of isolated ocean frequently lashed by storm force winds and massive swells.
this world is gradually coming to an end, there isn't day that will go by without one hearing about disaster, from Malaysia to Palestine, from Israel to Nigeria. .
Posted: at 17-07-2014 06:38 PM (10 years ago) | Newbie
dollar22 at 17-07-2014 08:12 PM (10 years ago) (m)
It's sad how things happen so often now. They haven't gotten close to finding the 1st Malaysian flight now they have a second mystery of who shot down this Malaysian flight. I can't even lie when I first read this story earlier when it was first breaking I thought that this plane was the original MH370 flight and they shot it down. Had to read another news article to get the whole story. Its just messed up that so many questions will go unanswered and so many families are suffering from tragic losses from things they are not even involved in. People nowadays don't even consider this weird or shocking or demand answers because it happens so frequent.
Until its in their own backyard......
Posted: at 17-07-2014 08:12 PM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
odprince at 17-07-2014 08:30 PM (10 years ago) (m)
I HAVE WARN PEOPLE TO AVOID ANYTHING ABOUT MALAYSIA..THAT COUNTRY IS AN EVIL PLACE AND NOW GOD HAVE REMEMBER THE EVIL THAT HAVE BEEN DONE IN MALAYSIA,,,PEOPLE SHOULD AVOID MALAYSIAN AIRLINE ......R I P TO THE DEAD....WHY SHOULD PEOPLE TAKE MALAYSIA AIRLINE??THAT COUNTRY IS BLOOD SUCKING,.....
Posted: at 17-07-2014 08:30 PM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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