Passenger Flight Reportedly Crashes Near Rebel-Held Territory in Ukraine With 295 Aboard
This post has been updated with new information since it was originally published.
The news agency Interfax is reporting that a Malaysia Airlines passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia has crashed in the Ukraine with 295 people aboard. A Reuters correspondent reports seeing airplane wreckage and bodies on the ground in the area.
Multiple news outlets are reporting that the Ukranian interior
ministry says rebels shot down the plane near the city of Donetsk, but
this detail is unconfirmed. The president of the Ukraine says the
country's own armed forces are not responsible for the
crash—specifically that they "did not take action against any airborne targets."
A Ukranian military transport plane was shot down from a height of 21,000 feet in the same region on Monday and a jet was shot down yesterday.
It isn't clear whether pro-Russia rebels or Russian forces proper were
responsible for those attacks, which took place near the Russia-Ukraine
border.
Malaysia Airlines says that it lost contact with the plane over Ukranian airspace. Another one of the company's flights, MH370, disappeared in March and is presumed to have crashed.
Labels: Atrocity, Conflict, Ukraine
posted by Pieface @ Thursday, July 17, 2014
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