The Boeing 777, flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was brought down by a buk ground-to-air missle, an interior ministry adviser said.
“280 passengers and 15 crew members have been killed,” Anton Herashchenko wrote on his Facebook page.
Malaysian airlines said on twitter that the last known position of the aircraft was over Ukrainian airspace. A flight tracking website showed that one flight path interrupted in Ukraine.
The Interfax news agency said the plane came down 50 km short of entering Russian airspace.
It “began to drop, afterwards it was found burning on the ground on Ukrainian territory,” an 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. – Al Jazeera
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