Malaysian airline crash

[surrey jim]

http://rt.com/news/173616-malaysian-crash-ukraine-border/
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/17/us-ukraine-crash-airplane-idUSKBN0FM1TU20140717

reports of a further crash involving Malaysian airliner, this time in Ukraine. 295 on board.

 

[Greavsey]

sh1t - a stray missile one assumes?

 

[doogie004]

Sky reporting Russians shot it down ground to air

 

[TomandJerry]

How many people died?

 

[pastafarian]

one news agency is claiming it was shot down at altitude

 

[ditchy]

Looks like its been shot down

 

[Tricky Dicky]

At least they know where they've lost this one. Not a good record this year, hope there weren't many on board.

 

[TomandJerry]

At least they know where they've lost this one. Not a good record this year, hope there weren't many on board.

295 on board

 

[doogie004]

295 people including crew

 

[TomandJerry]

On bbc now http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28354856

 

[Ernest]

Someone has f**ked up big time but Malaysia Airlines will be ruined by this

 

[crookie]

Russia will be in deep shit now if this turns out to be their doing

 

[pasty]

From the BBC live feed...

16:50: The Associated Press says one of its journalists saw a similar launcher near the eastern Ukrainian town of Snizhe earlier on Thursday.

16:50: An advisor to the Ukrainian interior minister, Antquon Gerashenko, says the plane was flying at an altitude of 10,000 metres (33,000 feet) when it was "hit by a missile fired from a Buk launcher", in a post on his Facebook page, according to the Associated Press.

 

[TomandJerry]

Reports saying it might have been the Russian rebels

 

[TomandJerry]

Sky reporting it was shot down:

http://news.sky.com/story/1302864/malaysian-plane-shot-down-with-295-on-board

 

[Cian]

Someone has f**ked up big time but Malaysia Airlines will be ruined by this

Definitely - they were already in a perilous financial state before 370; even if it ends up that it wasn't their fault (and this clearly isn't either) they're done for.

 

[TomandJerry]

Definitely - they were already in a perilous financial state before 370; even if it ends up that it wasn't their fault (and this clearly isn't either) they're done for.

17:06: If the deaths on board this flight are confirmed, it would be the second tragedy to strike Malaysia Airlines this year after the disappearance of Flight MH370 in March with 227 passengers and 12 members of crew on board - one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time.

 

[seagull_in_malaysia]

Suddenly makes me very nervous for my KUL-LHR flight on Saturday.

Final nail in the airline's coffin though.

 

[crookie]

you have to wonder why airlines are overflying what is in effect a conflict zone, with a Ukrainian jet shot down yesterday and other planes and helicopters shot down over the past couple of months. Sensible surely to give the area a wide berth

 

[TomandJerry]

US stocks have fallen sharply amid reports of the latest Malaysia Airlines flight incident, according to AFP.