Posted on 07/17/2014 8:55:30 AM PDT by Hojczyk
A Malaysian passenger plane with 295 people on board has been shot down as it flew above eastern Ukraine, according to aviation sources.
The plane, which is believed to have been flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was travelling at an altitude of 10km (6.2 miles) when it was shot down, Russia's Interfax reported.
The Boeing 777 was brought down by a Buk ground-to-air missile, an adviser to the Ukrainian interior ministry quoted by the news agency said.
he adviser said the 280 passengers and 15 crew members who were on the plane are all believed to have died.
A spokesman for Malaysian Airlines confirmed it had lost contact with flight MH17, which departed from Amsterdam at 12.14am local time.
The flight disappeared from radar as it flew over Ukrainian airspace, he said.
Sky's Katie Stallard, in Moscow, said media reports suggest the plane came down in the Donetsk region, where there has been recent heavy fighting amid continuing tensions between Russia and Ukraine.
Several videos apparently filmed in the area, none of which Sky News has been able to independently verify, show plumes of thick, black smoke rising high into the air.
An aviation source told the Reuters news agency the wreckage of a burning aircraft had been found on the ground.
A spokesman for the Foreign Office said: "We are aware of reports and are urgently working to establish what has happened."
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What about the 23 Americans that were reported earlier ?
Witnesses on the ground in Donetsk saw the missile go up and the plane come down.
Furthermore the US had its satellites trained on Donetsk and painted the actual location of the missile launched and the explosion.
They have these Russian separatists dead to right.
That was an early report. The Americans were reported later.
“Witnesses on the ground in Donetsk saw the missile go up and the plane come down.”
Did our FBI rush in to confiscate all cameras, film, and discs from these eyewitnesses, as they did right after TWA 800 crashed? Hundreds of people on Long Island saw a missile go up and the plane come down 18 years ago on that fateful night. Dozens of them took photos. All cameras were confiscated and the owners never got them back.
There’s an internet now — too bad there wasn’t one back then.
They are discussing it on FOX now. Speculating they are waiting on notification of next of kin. Earlier in day they discussed the merging of two flights in Amsterdam Vacation flight to Bali iirc That may explain the unaccounted 46 still not assigned a nation MA may not have the original flight manifast
Sure there was an Internet back then. I remember finding FR in 96.
Number raised to 298. Three babies were added to death toll
Might want to change title or add to it
How about Iphones with video capabilities???
I’ve never owned such a phone. I like my phone as it is strong. I can throw it at the wall and no damage to the phone.
Is that what they call a Drop Phone — one that gives you a lot of bang! for your buck?
So a bunch of trigger happy thugs shoot down a civilian airliner killing almost 300 innocent men, women and children of many nationalities (perhaps including Americans), ethnicities and religions, and the first thing comes to your head is to gloat over dead Muslims?
Despicable, truly despicable.
everyone and their mother has a dashcam over there.. I expect to see some video coming out sooner rather than later.
Rather, to correct you, in a special way BIGTIME:
Opps rhymes with Cops.
Oops rhymes with Hoops.
Even in the global south areas that are actually in the northern hemisphere.
I sense this is true, mark my words.
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