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.
Malaysia Airlines confirmed on its
Twitter feed that it had lost contact with Flight MH17 that was
traveling from Amsterdam, adding that "the last known position was over
Ukrainian airspace."
That flight, according to the aviation
tracking website Flightstats.com, was scheduled to arrive in Kuala
Lumpur at 6:10 a.m. local time.
Anton Gerashenko, an adviser to
Ukraine's Interior Minister, said on his Facebook page the plane was
flying at an altitude of 33,000 feet when it was hit by a missile fired
from a Buk surface-to-air missile system.
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