Malaysia Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashes in eastern Ukraine

[brooklynite]

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Source: CNN

A Malaysia Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur has crashed in eastern Ukraine

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/17/world/europe/ukraine-malaysia-airlines-crash/index.html

[maddezmom]

1. Malaysian passenger plane crashes in Ukraine near Russian border: Ifax

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/17/us-ukraine-crash-airplane-idUSKBN0FM1TU20140717

Malaysian passenger plane crashes in Ukraine near Russian border: Ifax
MOSCOW Thu Jul 17, 2014 11:15am EDT
World »
(Reuters) - A Malaysian passenger airliner with 295 people on board crashed in Ukraine near the Russian border, Interfax cited an aviation industry source as saying on Thursday.

It said the Boeing plane was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. Reuters could not immediately confirm the Interfax report.

[geek tragedy]

2. Crashed, or was it shot down? nt

[brooklynite]

5. Sky News reporting "shot down"...

...but I'd take any specifics with a lot of skepticism at this point.

[maddezmom]

9. NY daily news reporting the same

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/malaysian-airlines-plane-crashes-ukraine-russian-border-article-1.1870413

Malaysia Airlines plane shot down in Ukraine near Russian border

[KeepItReal]

12. Interfax is claiming it was shot down. Sky is repeating that claim.

They say it may have been shot down by a BUK anti-aircraft missile.

NATO calls that an SA-11 or SA-17.

Damn.

[joshcryer]

6. It was over rebel territory.

They shot down another plane a few days ago so this wouldn't surprise me.

Russia is about to lose a lot of credibility today.

As are the rebel sympathizers.

[geek tragedy]

8. Horrible. 295 people. If it was a Russian weapon ... nt

[joshcryer]

11. Russia will soon stop supplying the rebels, if this is the case.

But again we have video of a high altitude airliner being shot down and Russia disclaimed responsiblity. So only the rebels can be blamed for this.

Seeing a lot of damage control on twitter by DU's favorite Putin apologists...

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Well, at least we know where THAT plane is.n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Arggghh...

[icymist]

7. Another Boeing 777.

http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/543737-malaysian-777-down-over-ukraine.html

[brooklynite]

10. Does anyone know that this was Malaysia Airlines?

According to their timetable, this is a KLM codeshare flight.

[DonViejo]

13. Locking...

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