Malaysian Passenger Plane Crashes in Ukraine Near Russian Border

[mota bhai 2,675]

Kiev: A Malaysian passenger airliner with 295 people on board crashed in Ukraine near the Russian border on Thursday, the Interfax news agency cited an aviation industry source as saying.

The Boeing plane was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, it said. Reuters could not immediately confirm the report.

The Interfax report said the plane came down 50 km (20 miles) short of entering Russian airspace. It "began to drop, afterwards it was found burning on the ground on Ukrainian territory," the unnamed source said.

The plane appeared to have come down in a region of military action where Ukrainian government forces are battling pro-Russian separatists.

A separate unnamed source in the Ukrainian security apparatus, quoted by Interfax, said the plane disappeared from radar at a height of 10,000 metres after which it came down near the town of Shakhtyorsk.

http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/malaysian-passenger-plane-crashes-in-ukraine-near-russian-border-interfax-news-agency-560455

[spookyturtle 9,465]

Perhaps shot down.

[JohnR! 5,495]

It'll be interesting to learn the cause of the crash...

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

That's what AP reports.

Official: Malaysian plane shot down over Ukraine

[mota bhai 2,675]

Malaysian Airlines has pissed off someone important.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Malaysian Airlines has pissed off someone important.

Vladimir Vladimirovitch?

Interfax also reports that the plane was shot down.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

The smoke n this picture allegedly comes from the crashed 777.

Around 300 people were on board. Lord have mercy...

[GandD 5,966]

Sad.

[unsmiley 111]

Scary. Could be the real start of war in the region...

[Hotter Otter 1,211]

Those rebels have been shooting down Ukranian military planes in the area...

[GandD 5,966]

It won't go well for Ukraine if they're the one's that shot it down. Putin will grandstand about it.

[lostinblue 1,989]

Malaysia Airlines confirms an incident — pictured above in an unconfirmed screen grab of the purported crash site — following reports that a passenger plane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile in Ukraine near the Russian border, according to Sky News

http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=116605

In June 1 operations:

-- A combined patrol discovered a weapons cache containing three shoulder-fired, surface-to-air missiles, three anti-tank mines, 423 RPGs, 118,600 7.62 mm rounds, 30 rifles and other ordnance in the Tarin Kot district of Uruzgan province. The cache’s contents were destroyed.

Iran 'steals surface-to-air missiles from Libya' Iran's Revolutionary Guards have stolen dozens of sophisticated Russian-made surface-to-air missiles from Libya and smuggled them across the border to neighbouring Sudan, according to Western intelligence reports.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/8782103/Iran-steals-surface-to-air-missiles-from-Libya.html

This will be interesting folks

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

God bless the families...

[TheFoxxy 76]

This is terrible, all the families and people who lost loved ones. I hope this does not effect Diana's move here 2 weeks from today..

[mota bhai 2,675]

God bless the families...

Except for the sinners and zionists among them, amirite?