Boeing 777: Aircraft crash in Ukraine (pic & vid)
An airline passenger jet crashed in Malaysian airspace of Ukraine, near the border with Russia, reported the Interfax news agency citing sources of civil aviation.
According to Interfax, the aircraft of type Boeing, was carrying 295 people and was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
All probabilities are open
According to information, the area in which the aircraft was crashed is occupied by separatists and is quite close to Donetsk.
Information talks about shooting down the aircraft by insurgents, who thought that it was a Russian fighter.
Representative of Malaysians Airlines confirmed that Flight MH 17, which took off from Amsterdam at 12.14 local time, lost contact with radar.
The agency Interfax transmits that the Ukrainian consultant of the Interior Ministry confirmed via Facebook that 280 passengers and 15 crew are killed in the plane crash and talks about shooting down the airplane by Buk rocket of soil - air, by the separatists
The separatists in the region that the plane crashed deny involvement in shooting down and say they have no such missile systems, according to the Russian agency Interfax.
Severe turbulence in financial terms. Already the European FTSE index appears down as the stock exchange in Germany and France, after the announcement of the downing of the aircraft, according to Russian media.
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