Malaysian Plane With More Than 300 Passengers Shot Down(Updated)

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22 Bodies Counted at Ukraine Malaysia Airlines Crash Site

World | Associated Press | Updated: July 17, 2014 23:27 IST

 

 

Werckage of the Malaysia Airlines plane shot down in Eastern Ukraine

Grabovo, Ukraine:  Ukraine said passenger plane carrying 295 people was shot down Thursday as it flew over the country, and both the government and the pro-Russia separatists fighting in the region denied any responsibility for downing the plane.

As plumes of black smoke rose up near a rebel-held village of Grabovo in eastern Ukraine, an Associated Press journalist counted at least 22 bodies at the crash site 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the Russian border.

The plane appeared to have broken up before impact and the burning wreckage - including body parts and the belongings of passengers - was scattered over a wide area

Malaysia Airlines tweeted that it lost contact with one of its flights carrying 280 passengers and 15 crew as it was traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur over Ukrainian airspace, but did not yet confirm the crash.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called the downing an act of terrorism and called for an international investigation into the crash.

The Donetsk region government said a plane crashed Thursday near a village called Grabovo, which it said is currently under the control of the separatists. The region where the flight was lost has seen severe fighting between the two sides in recent days.

Anton Gerashenko, an adviser to Ukraine's interior minister, said on his Facebook page the plane was flying at an altitude of 10,000 meters (33,000 feet). He said it was hit by a missile fired from a Buk launcher, which can fire missiles up to an altitude of 22,000 meters (72,000 feet).

The Malaysia Airlines plane is a Boeing 777-200ER, which was delivered to Malaysia Airlines on July 30, 1997, according to Flightglobal's Ascend Online Fleets, which sells and tracks information about aircraft. It has more than 43,000 hours of flight time and 6,950 takeoffs and landings.

Poroshenko said his country's armed forces didn't shoot at any airborne targets.

"We do not exclude that this plane was shot down, and we stress that the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not take action against any airborne targets," he said. "We are sure that those who are guilty in this tragedy will be held responsible."

Separatist leader Andrei Purgin told The Associated Press that he was certain that Ukrainian troops had shot the plane down but gave no explanation or proof for his statement.

Purgin said he did not know whether rebel forces owned Buk missile launchers, but said even if they did, there had no fighters capable of operating it.

 

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More Than 300 Dead in Malaysian Airliner Downing: Ukrainian Ministry Aide

World | Reuters | Updated: July 17, 2014 23:26 IST

 

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Kiev:  The total number of dead in the crash of a Malaysia Airlines plane in eastern Ukraine is more than 300 and includes 23 US citizens, a Ukrainian interior ministry aide said.

"More than 300 innocent people have been killed ... it is known that 23 US citizens were killed," Zoryan Shkyryak was quoted by Interfax news agency as saying.

The airline said there were 280 passengers and 15 crew members on the flight.

 

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US, European Agencies Warned Pilots About Ukraine Airspace Dangers in April

World | Reuters | Updated: July 17, 2014 23:29 IST

 

 

 

Washington:  Aviation safety authorities in the United States and Europe warned pilots in April about potential risks flying in or near Ukraine airspace, where a Malaysian passenger airliner went down on Thursday.

The US Federal Aviation Administration on April 23 issued a "special notice" regarding Ukrainian airspace to US aviators and air carriers advising them not to fly in airspace around the Crimean city of Simferopol without special approval of the US government.

The notice also warned US operators and pilots flying in other parts of Ukraine, including Kiev, Lvov, Dnepropetrovsk and Odessa, to "exercise extreme caution due to the continuing potential for instability."

The warning remains in effect until April 23, 2015.

International aviation agencies in April also had warned pilots and airlines to avoid the airspace around Simferopol.

Agencies including the European Aviation Safety Agency and ICAO, a United Nations civil aviation agency, warned that airlines faced "serious risks" in the area and advised airlines to take alternate routes.

 

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Malaysia Airlines flight reportedly shot down by ‘terrorists,’ 23 Americans on flight manifest

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మలేషియన్ ఎయిర్లైన్స్ విమానం ఒకటి ఉక్రెయిన్లో కుప్పకూలింది. అమెరికాలోని ఆమ్స్టర్డామ్ నుంచి మలేషియా రాజధాని కౌలాలంపూర్ వెళ్తున్న ఈ విమానం రష్యా సరిహద్దుల్లోని ఉక్రెయిన్లో ఉండగా కుప్పకూలింది. ఈ విమానంలో 280 మంది ప్రయాణికులు, 15 మంది సిబ్బంది ఉన్నారు. వాళ్లంతా మరణించినట్లు మలేషియా హోం శాఖ నిర్ధారించింది. ఎంహెచ్-17 విమానంతో సంబంధాలు తెగిపోయాయని, ఆ తర్వాత అది కూలిపోయినట్లు తెలిసిందని, మొత్తం అందులో ఉన్నవారంతా మరణించారని మలేషియన్ ఎయిర్ లైన్స్ సంస్థ కూడా తెలిపింది. గురువారం మధ్యాహ్నం 12.14 గంటలకు బయల్దేరిన ఈ విమానం శుక్రవారం ఉదయం 6.10 గంటలకు కౌలాలంపూర్ చేరుకోవాల్సి ఉంది. ఆలోపే ఈ ప్రమాదం జరగడంతో మొత్తం ప్రయాణికులు, సిబ్బంది అంతా మరణించారు.
అయితే, రష్యా మిసైల్ వల్లే ఈ విమానం కూలినట్లు ఉక్రెయిన్ హోం మంత్రి ఆన్టోన్ తెలిపారు. విమానం 10వేల మీటర్ల ఎత్తులో ఉండగా రష్యా దాన్ని మిసైల్తో కూల్చేసిందన్నారు. గత రెండు వారాల్లో తమ దేశ యుద్ధ విమానాలను కూడా రష్యా కూల్చేసిందని ఆయన వివరించారు.
ఈ బోయింగ్ 777 విమానం గంటకు 950 కిలోమీటర్ల వేగంతో వెళ్తుంది. రెండు ప్రాంతాల మధ్య దూరం ఎక్కువ కాబట్టి ఈ విమానాన్ని ఉపయోగిస్తారు. ప్రమాద విషయాన్ని అందరికంటే ముందుగా రష్యా వార్తా సంస్థ ఇంటర్ఫాక్స్ బయటి ప్రపంచానికి తెలిపింది. ఆ తర్వాతే మలేషియన్ ఎయిర్ లైన్స్ కూడా నిర్ధారించింది.

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Malaysia Airlines flight reportedly shot down by ‘terrorists,’ 23 Americans on flight manifest

It shouldnt be abt 23 Americans, but it shld be abt 295 lives

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 ఉక్రెయిన్లో ఓ సైనిక రవాణా విమానాన్ని రష్యా అనుకూల వేర్పాటువాదులు కూల్చేశారు. దాంతో ఆ విమానంలో ఉన్న పలువురు మరణించారు. లుగాంస్క్ నగరం మీదుగా విమానం వెళ్తున్నప్పుడు ఈ సంఘటన జరిగింది. పెద్ద కాలిబర్ ఉన్న మిషన్గన్తో ఉగ్రవాదులు ఇష్టారాజ్యంగా కాల్పులు జరిపారని, దాంతో ఉక్రెయిన్ వైమానిక దళానికి చెందిన ఇల్యుషిన్-76 విమానం కూలిపోయిందని సైన్యం తెలిపింది.

నాలుగు ఇంజన్లున్న ఈ జెట్ విమానంలో సైనిక బలగాలతో పాటు యుద్ధ పరికరాలు కూడా ఉన్నాయి. మరణించిన సైనికుల కుటుంబాలకు ఉక్రెయిన్ రక్షణ మంత్రిత్వ శాఖ నివాళులు అర్పించింది. అయితే, ఎంతమంది మరణించారన్న విషయం మాత్రం చెప్పలేదు.

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Ukrainian authorities say well-armed pro-Russian separatists shot down a Malaysia Airlines passenger aircraft with a sophisticated anti-aircraft missile.

The Boeing 777, carrying 280 passengers and 15 crew, crashed near the city of Torez in the Donetsk region about 50km from the Russia-Ukraine border.

Eyewitnesses at the scene say there are no survivors.

The codeshare flight with KLM Airlines left Amsterdam around noon local time on Thursday and was due to arrive in Kuala Lumpur this morning.

The crash is another major blow to Malaysia Airlines, with the loss of Flight MH370 somewhere in the Indian Ocean in March.

The latest plane went down while flying at a cruising altitude of about 10,000m (33,000ft) and would require a ground-to-air missile.

Pro-Russian separatists of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic say they don’t have missiles that go above 3-4000m.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has ordered a special investigation into the crash, which follows the downing of a Ukrainian AN-26 military cargo aircraft and a Ukrainian SU-25 fighter jet in the same area earlier this week.

Aviation authorities say the crash area has been avoided by civilian aircraft due to conflict between Ukrainian armed forces and the pro-Russian separatists.

Some reports say Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was flying further north than the planned route to avoid bad weather.

In 2001, the Ukrainian military mistakenly shot down a commercial passenger jet that was en route from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk with a land-to-air missile that was fired during a military exercise.

All the 66 passengers and 12 crew members on board the plane were killed in that crash.

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Malaysian airliner downed in Ukraine war zone, 295 dead

 

 

(Reuters) - A Malaysian airliner was brought down over eastern Ukraine on Thursday, killing all 295 people aboard and sharply raising stakes in a conflict between Kiev and pro-Moscow rebels in which Russia and the West back opposing sides.

Ukraine accused "terrorists" - militants fighting to unite eastern Ukraine with Russia - of shooting down the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 with a heavy, Soviet-era ground-to-air missile as it flew from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.

Leaders of rebels in the Donetsk People's Republic denied any involvement, although around the same time their military commander said his forces had downed a much smaller Ukrainian transport plane - their third such kill this week.

Reuters journalists saw burning and charred wreckage bearing the red and blue Malaysia insignia and dozens of bodies strewn in fields near the village of Grabovo, 40 km (25 miles) from the Russian border near the rebel-held regional capital of Donetsk.

The scale of the disaster affecting scores of foreigners could prove a turning point for international pressure to resolve a crisis that has claimed hundreds of lives in Ukraine since pro-Western protests toppled the Moscow-backed president in Kiev in February and Russia annexed Crimea a month later.

As word came in of what Ukraine's Western-backed president called a "terrorist attack", the Russian and U.S. leaders, Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama, were discussing a new round of economic sanctions that Washington and its EU partners imposed on Moscow on Wednesday to try to force Putin to do more to curb the revolt against the Western-backed government in Kiev.

They noted the early reports during their telephone call, the White House said, adding that Obama warned of further sanctions if Moscow did not change course in Ukraine.