A Malaysian Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Kuala
Lumpur has crashed in eastern Ukraine. There were 280
passengers and 15 crew members on board.
Ukrainian Interior Minister said all on board are dead and
that the plane was shot down by Russian ground-to-air
anti-aircraft missiles at 33,000 feet and at 500mph.
The plane, a Boeing 777, came down near the city of
Donetsk, which is a border between Russia and Ukraine
where a Ukrainian transport plane was shot down at
21,000 feet on Monday July 13th and a military jet shot
down last week from the Russian side of the border.
The Interior Minister said pro-Russian separatists have
been hunting down their planes for weeks. 6 Ukrainian
military jets have been shot down in the last few months by
the Russians. There's been military dispute between
Ukraine and Russia for a while. And now they are shooting
down passenger planes? The plane departed Amsterdam at
12.30pm and went down around 4.30pm. See photos from
the crash after the cut...
The BUK surface-to-air missile system (like this one) that
is believed to have shot down flight MH17 is an old Soviet-
built weapon designed to engage light aircraft, cruise
missiles and drones
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