Got the title change coz it's not definite that Russians are behind this. Feels wrong to blame just anyone coz of speculations around it.
Got the title change coz it's not definite that Russians are behind this. Feels wrong to blame just anyone coz of speculations around it.
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Malaysia Airlines (AFP/File - Tengku Bahar) KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia Airlines said on Thursday it had "lost contact" with one of its passenger planes flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, whose last known position was over Ukraine.
According to Interfax news agency, a Ukrainian interior ministry official said that the MH17 plane was shot down by militants by a ground-to-air missile.
"280 passengers and 15 crew died," Anton Gerashchenko wrote on his Facebook site.
"Malaysia Airlines has lost contact of MH17 from Amsterdam," the airline, still reeling from the disappearance of flight MH370, said on its Twitter account.
"The last known position was over Ukrainian airspace," it said, adding that it would provide more details soon.
The airliner crashed in east Ukraine, where pro-Russian rebels are battling government forces, Russian and Ukrainian news agencies reported, citing aviation and security sources.
The Boeing passenger liner came down close to the town of Shaktarsk in the rebellion-wracked region of Donetsk after disappearing from the radar and teams from the emergency services were trying to reach the scene, an unnamed security source told Interfax-Ukraine news agency.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on his Twitter said: "I am shocked by reports that an MH plane crashed. We are launching an immediate investigation."
- Agencies/nd
