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Airliner was flying in approved airspace
Jul18

Airliner was flying in approved airspace

When it disappeared from radar, the aircraft was flying at 33,000 feet, just above a 32,000ft ceiling the Ukrainian authorities set on July 14 …read more Source: Financial...

Crash raises political heat over Ukraine
Jul18

Crash raises political heat over Ukraine

Even as responsibility for the Malaysian crash remains unclear, positions are hardening in Kiev and Washington over Russia’s role in Ukraine …read more Source: Financial...

Video: Footage purports to show Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash
Jul18

Video: Footage purports to show Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash

Six Britons, 23 US citizens and 80 children are reported to be among those killed when a passenger jet crashed over the eastern Ukraine border amid claim and counter-claim that it was shot down. …read more Source: The...

What Sort Of Weapon Brought Down Airliner?
Jul18

What Sort Of Weapon Brought Down Airliner?

It has been claimed the plane was hit by a missile from a Buk, a surface-to-air missile system used by both Russia and Ukraine. …read more Source: Sky...

Witnesses describe Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash in eastern Ukraine – video
Jul18

Witnesses describe Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash in eastern Ukraine – video

Witnesses describe the scene on Thursday afternoon when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashed near the Ukraine-Russia border. Locals describe hearing explosions and watching the plane fall in fear and shock. The 295 passengers on board were all killed as their plane is believed to have been shot down in the eastern Ukrainian battle zone …...

Malaysia Airlines plane crashes on Ukraine-Russia border
Jul18

Malaysia Airlines plane crashes on Ukraine-Russia border

Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashes in Ukraine …read more Source: The...

Malaysia Airlines crash: Former air accident investigator says Ukraine-Russia tensions could hamper investigations
Jul18

Malaysia Airlines crash: Former air accident investigator says Ukraine-Russia tensions could hamper investigations

David Gleave explains the implications of the crash for Malaysia Airlines and international flight in eastern Europe …read more Source: The...

MH17: Twenty-seven Australians were on board crashed Malaysian plane
Jul18

MH17: Twenty-seven Australians were on board crashed Malaysian plane

Dutch authorities confirm toll in Ukraine crashThere were 27 Australians on board Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 that crashed in Ukraine, killing all on board, the European head of Malaysia Airlines says. Among the other nationalities on board were 154 Dutch, 11 Indonesians, 23 Malaysians, six Britons, four Germans, four Belgians, three from the...

MH17 crash site: impact threw us to the ground, say shocked witnesses
Jul18

MH17 crash site: impact threw us to the ground, say shocked witnesses

Our reporter at scene of downed Malaysian airliner sees debris and body parts across huge area near Russia-Ukraine borderThe field near the tiny rural hamlet where MH17 plunged to the ground was a scene of smouldering charred earth and twisted metal as shocked locals milled about, trying to comprehend what had happened. A piece of the...

Ukrainian president calls Malaysia Airlines crash a ‘terrorist attack’ – video
Jul17

Ukrainian president calls Malaysia Airlines crash a ‘terrorist attack’ – video

Journalists and emergency services examine the crash site near the eastern Ukrainian town of Grabovo where Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 fell on Thursday. Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko says he does not believe the crash was an accident but a ‘terrorist attack’. Both the Ukrainian government and pro-Russia separatists have...