Thursday 17 July 2014

Not Again...Kuala Lumpur bound Malaysia's passenger Flight MH17 crashed in Ukraine!

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Just months after Malaysia’s Flight MH370 disappeared on March 8 with 239 on board, another Malaysian liner carrying 298 passengers, flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur reportedly crashed in insurgency-wracked east Ukraine, regional officials said Thursday. 
Malaysia Airlines said it had “lost contact” with the Boeing passenger liner, which Ukrainian officials said had come down in a rebel-held zone in the Donetsk region.
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Malaysia Airlines has lost contact of MH17 from Amsterdam,” the airline, still reeling from the disappearance of flight MH370. 
The last known position was over Ukrainian airspace,” it said on its Twitter account., promising more details soon.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said the jet may have been shot down.
We do not exclude that the plane was shot down and confirm that the Ukraine Armed Forces did not fire at any targets in the sky,” Poroshenko said in a statement posted on the president’s website.

Regional officials in Donetsk confirmed the plane had come down near the town of Shaktarsk.
From all indications, there are no survivors. 

Headphones and computers were reportedly scattered throughout a field of sunflowers. While a Dutch passport lay open, bodies fell from the sky, looking like rags or clumps of ash in another field.

Emergency services were rushed to the scene, a security source reportedly told Interfax-Ukraine.
It was gathered that US stocks fell sharply following reports the Malaysia Airlines plane had been shot down, while Britain’s Foreign Office said it was “working urgently to find out what’s happened.”

A man believed to be on flight MH17 allegedly posted this before flight took off. “Should it disappear, this is what it looks like.
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Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak, while speaking on TV says Ukraine President has pledged a "thorough and independent investigation."




On his part, Russian President Putin says Ukraine "bears responsibility" for the crash of MH17 Malaysia Airlines plane".


May the souls of the departed, R.I.P....





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