Another Malaysian Airliner Gone

[planosteve]

A Malaysian airliner reportedly with 295 people on board has crashed in Ukraine near the Russian border, on a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.

Malaysia Airlines said it had lost contact with Flight MH17 from Amsterdam. The last known position was over Ukraine, it said in a tweet.

An aviation source in Moscow told Reuters the plane had been found burning on the ground in east Ukraine.

Separatist rebels have been fighting government forces in the region.

[Bob Of Burleson]

Ukraine says Malaysian airliner shot down, 295 dead

Reuters.com

A Malaysian airliner was shot down over eastern Ukraine by militants on Thursday, killing all 295 people aboard, a Ukrainian interior ministry official was quoted as saying by Interfax-Ukraine news agency.

The aircraft, which other sources said was a Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, came down near the city of Donetsk, stronghold of pro-Russian rebels, Anton Gerashchenko said, adding that it was hit by a ground-to-air missile.

There was no further confirmation of the report, although Ukrainian officials said local residents had found wreckage.

Malaysia Airlines said on its Twitter feed it had lost contact with its flight MH-17 from Amsterdam. "The last known position was over Ukrainian airspace," it said.

Gerashchenko was quoted as saying: "A civilian airliner travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur has just been shot down by a Buk anti-aircraft system ... 280 passengers and 15 crew have been killed."

Interfax-Ukraine quoted another Ukrainian official as saying the plane disappeared from radar when it was flying at 10,000 metres (33,000 feet), a typical cruising altitude for airliners.

It came down at Torez, near Shakhtersk, some 40 km from the Russia border. The area has been the scene of fighting between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian rebels.

Ukraine has accused Russia of taking an active role in the four-month-old conflict in recent days and accused it earlier on Thursday of shooting down a Ukrainian fighter jet - an accusation that Moscow denied.

(Reporting by Richard Balmforth and Alastair Macdonald; Editing by Peter Millership)

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[planosteve]

McCain was quick to get his mug on camera to tell people not to draw any conclusions or prejudge, but since it was obviously a sophisticated missle system it had to be the Russians. It's hard to imagine an event so bad that mad dog McCain wouldn't try to make it even worse.

[planosteve]

The big lie is now shaping up on CNN. It is that the seperatists had recently bragged that they had "got their hands on" a Russian BUK mobile missle system which is the only one that could reach the altitude the plane was flying. And so vola! it was the Russian backed
seperatists that must have done it.

CNN conveniently has footage of a BUK in operation ready to throw up a moment's notice.

[Bob Of Burleson]

The militants are claiming that they don't have missiles sophisticated enough to bring down a high-flying airliner.

[BigTex]

Controlled explosion on the airliner.

[planosteve]

The militants are claiming that they don't have missiles sophisticated enough to bring down a high-flying airliner.

No, and they couldn't operate it if they did have one. This was a deliberate attack on a civilian airliner by either the Russian military or the Kiev govt. military.

[BigTex]

or Dick Cheney

[planosteve]

or Dick Cheney

That's right. I think he's now a special advisor to the Nazis that we put in charge of the Ukraine.

[kent]

W did it

Or Israel

[Red Oak]

A particle beam weapon used by Ben Bernacke !

[GFB]

The militants are claiming that they don't have missiles sophisticated enough to bring down a high-flying airliner.

No, and they couldn't operate it if they did have one. This was a deliberate attack on a civilian airliner by either the Russian military or the Kiev govt. military.

Chechens have the missile system to do this.

I'll bet on..Muslims.

[planosteve]

The militants are claiming that they don't have missiles sophisticated enough to bring down a high-flying airliner.

No, and they couldn't operate it if they did have one. This was a deliberate attack on a civilian airliner by either the Russian military or the Kiev govt. military.

Chechens have the missile system to do this.

I'll bet on..Muslims.

Now, that makes no sense at all. For one thing jihadists don't operate sophisticated missile systems. And even if they could, why would they shoot town a plane of a Muslim country in the Ukraine?

[BigTex]

Since when did this stuff have to make sense?

[GFB]

Muslims love to kill Muslims.

Muslims love to stir things up.

Muslims love to kill innocents..and not a whole lot of people love to do that...(except Muslims)

[planosteve]

Interesting to see what a real airliner crash looks like. As opposed to a trash pit in Shanksville.

[GFB]

If it was not Muslims, then somebody made a mistake and shot down the wrong plane.

[BigTex]

Interesting to see what a real airliner crash looks like. As opposed to a trash pit in Shanksville.

There's a slight difference between a plane that is broken up in flight by a missile and a plane that flies into the ground - probably at full throttle.

[planosteve]

Interesting to see what a real airliner crash looks like. As opposed to a trash pit in Shanksville.

There's a slight difference between a plane that is broken up in flight by a missile and a plane that flies into the ground - probably at full throttle.

Ever see another airliner crash that was just a hole in the ground?

[BigTex]

Loaded question. I didn't see meteors hit the moon but I believe that's what caused the craters.