Breaking: Malaysia Airlines Plane Crashes, 295 Passengers Reportedly Dead!

It hasn’t even been 6 months since the search of the STILL missing Malaysian Airline (Flight MH370) , and today we have the unfortunate news of another Malaysian aircraft story. Flight MH17 reportedly has crashed due to “terrorist” shooting the aircraft down. According to reports, flight MH17 went down when crossing over war territory between Ukraine and pro-Russian separatist. While sources haven’t confirmed who shot the plane down, Ukraine and Russia are both denying that this incident was caused by both respective countries.

[ BBC Excerpt]

–“Dozens of bodies are scattered around what is believed to be the wreckage of the jet near the village of Grabovo, said to be under rebel control.

Flight MH17 had been due to enter Russian airspace when contact was lost.

Both the Ukrainian government and rebels have denied shooting it down in the region close to the Russian border.

Pro-Russian separatists are believed to have shot down two Ukrainian military planes over the region in recent day.

A defence expert has told the BBC that shooting down a plane at 10,000m (32,000ft) would have required a long- range surface-to-air missile – possibly guided by radar.

That suggests it is unlikely it could have been downed by a portable air defence missile, or Manpad, which has a much shorter range.

The only other possibility is for an aircraft at that height to be downed by a fighter carrying air-to-air missiles.

The US will have access to satellite imagery that should be able to identify ultra-violet plumes if a long-range surface-to-air missile was fired.

Ukraine has accused Russia’s military of supplying advanced missiles to the rebels.

Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak reportedly said he was launching an immediate inquiry into the crash.

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to his US counterpart, Barack Obama, by phone about the crash, the Kremlin said in a statement (in Russian).

“The Russian leader informed the US president about an air-traffic controllers’ report that came just before their phone conversation that a Malaysian plane crashed in Ukraine,” the statement said.”–