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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This Buk is serious military hardware. It is not a portable surface to air missile launcher. Did they (Ukrainians) think it was a Russian warplane?
Yep 777
First one disappears on 7- March number 370
Now 7-17 flight 17
Are the Separatist Muslim?
So the Russian military should have known - or was it the Ukraine that shot it down. Time will tell.
That cold I like it LOL!
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said his country’s armed forces didn’t shoot at any airborne targets.
Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, just about any route looks like overflight of multiple war zones is involved these days.
As Malaysia Airlines is in bankruptcy now, this will probably stick a fork in it.
I followed closely reports and pilots and engineers' discussions on aviation boards about MH370 and concluded that there is something very odd about Malaysian Airlines when compared to other commercial airlines from two bit countries. Somebody was helping MA badly to edit the obvious gaps in storytelling and that somebody was capable enough to hush up Rolls Royce (owner of the MH370 engines) about the engines whereabouts, force Boeing to issue conflicting report whether MH370 had satnav antenna bolted on or not and so on. Too many amazing details to mention them all, readign it makes Tom Clancy dull by comparison.
Military and civilian ATC “should” all be on the same page, but in that part of the world, I would not bet on it.
does not look “friendly”
Are we sure it wasn’t MH 370?
Why is the ICAO routing commercial flights over Ukraine ?
Top of the hour news indicates there are more casualties from folks on the ground so it must have crashed in a populated area.
I would not get on a Malaysian air liner if my life depended on it
I used to walk past Lucas’s small IL&M branch in Berkeley, so go that part. MA as an unwitting extra in terror biz really is clever. Thanks.
Perhaps they’ll find a better agent to get them better parts. ;>)
9/12/1683 was the day of the defeat of Muslim forces in the Battle of Vienna. So 9/11 is the date of the high watermark of Muslim penetration into Europe. They’re all about history.
Thanks. Interesting. Yes, this sort of intrigue deserves a Tom Clancy, God rest his soul.
Russia is paranoid - they shoot down civilian airliners. The did a 747 flt007 and a 707 back in the Sixties. Then there’s that Polish airliner with state officials on it so I bet they did this one too ...
This is what happens when you get conscripted farmboys and/or rebel militia operating a SAM site.
Count on Obama to do exactly nothing about this.
Am seeing reports of 23 Americans aboard. RIP
Also, aircraft was north of normally traveled route due to local weather.
And, possible Ukraine/Russian military airspace overlap, and the rebels did have at least one BUK system.
Very sad and complicated situation
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