Section: Indonesia
Twin Air Disasters Threaten Malaysian Tourism Push
Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER with registration 9M-MRD operating as flight MH17 is seen at the G3 gate of Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, before it took off, heading to Kuala Lumpur, July 17, 2014. (Reuters Photo/Yaron Mofaz) Kuala Lumpur. An unprecedented second major aviation disaster in four months could further associate Malaysia with...
Train Carrying MH17 Bodies on Final Journey Reaches Ukraine City
A train carrying the remains of many of the 298 victims of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 arrived in a Ukrainian government-held city on Tuesday on the first leg of their final journey home to be reclaimed by their families. Five refrigerated wagons containing 200 body bags reached the city of Kharkiv after pro-Russian separatists agreed to hand...
Singapore Tells Airlines to Review Conflict Zone Risk Assessment
Singapore/Kuala Lumpur. Singapore’s civil aviation authority has asked airlines based in the city-state to review their risk assessment of conflict zones following the shooting down of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner over Ukraine last week. The deaths of nearly 300 passengers and crew in the downing of Flight MH17 have shocked the aviation...
Malaysia jet victims’ bodies arrive in Netherlands
Two military transport planes carrying 40 coffins bearing victims of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 landed Wednesday in the southern city of Eindhoven, and pro-Russian rebels shot down two fighter jets in Ukraine’s restive east as fighting flared in the region.Six days after the Boeing 777 was shot down over the battlefields of...
UN council demands `full` probe over downed Malaysia jet
The UN Security Council on Friday demanded a full, independent and international investigation into the apparent shooting down of a Malaysian jet over Ukraine that killed 298 people on board. …read more Source: ANTARA...
Bodies, Black Boxes Handed Over From Ukraine Crash Site
Senior Ukrainian separatist leader Aleksander Borodai, center, speaks during a handover of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17’s black boxes to Col. Mohamed Sakri, right, of the Malaysian National Security Council, in Donetsk, Ukraine on July 22, 2014. (Reuters Photo/Maxim Zmeyev) Donetsk, Ukraine. The remains of some of the nearly 300 victims of...
Cover-Up Underway at MH17 Crash Site: Australian PM Abbott
Sydney. Evidence at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines MH17 has been tampered with on an industrial scale as part of an apparent cover-up attempt, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Tuesday. “After the crime, comes the cover-up. What we have seen is evidence tampering on an industrial scale and obviously that has to stop,”...
Fighting Erupts in Ukraine as Crash Investigators Arrive
Donetsk, Ukraine. Ukrainian army tanks were reported to be launching an assault to break pro-Russian rebels’ hold on the eastern city of Donetsk on Monday in the first major outbreak of hostilities in the area since Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down last week. A separatist leader said Ukrainian government forces were trying to...
Angry Australia PM Says Ukraine Crash Probe Resembles ‘Garden Clean-Up’
Members of the Ukrainian Emergencies Ministry, medical personnel and a crane operator work at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, near the village of Hrabove, Donetsk region in Ukraine on July 20, 2014. (Reuters Photo/Maxim Zmeyev) Sydney. Australia’s prime minister voiced deep concern on Monday that Russian-backed rebels...
Australian AIDS Conference Remembers Crash Victims With Silence
Delegates observe a minute’s silence during the opening session, as a tribute to colleagues killed in the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, at the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne on July 20, 2014. (Reuters Photo/Mark Dadswell) Delegates heading to the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, Australia, were among the...
