Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur before it was shot down over Ukraine.
The 280 passengers and 15 crew members on board are all believed to be dead.
Boeing, Malaysia Airlines, the Ukraine government, and the Malaysia government have pledged to investigate what happened.
Russian-backed separatist leader Igor Girkin (who also goes by the name of Strelkov) claimed credit for the shoot down, reported the Kyiv Post.
“”The plane has just been taken down somewhere around Torez (Donetsk Oblast). It lays there behind the Progress mine. We did warn you – do not fly in ‘our sky,’” he said.
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Source: The Epoch Times
