Section: The Guardian (The United Kingdom)
Pim de Kuijer, my friend and Aids campaigner, killed in MH17 crash
A friend pays tribute to the Dutch citizen killed in airliner shot down over Ukraine, who was an enthusiastic writer and political activist and ‘most of all loved by many’My colleague and friend Pim de Kuijer died on his way to an Aids conference in Melbourne, a journey which typified his concern for others.Pim was Dutch and a...
Malaysia Airlines plane MH17: wars have bloomed from far, far less | Paul Daley
Rapid and precise responses are demanded but publicly displaying genuine empathy and leading public grieving is just as critical for world leaders, including Tony AbbottThe missile attack on the Malaysian passenger jet that has killed 298 people carries the type of broad-reaching and deleterious global implications that have stemmed from the very...
MH17 crash: Aids researchers heading to Melbourne believed among dead
Scientists were on route to the 20th international Aids conference, due to start on SundayA number of scientists and researchers heading to a key Aids conference in Melbourne were reportedly on board the Malaysia Airlines plane that has crashed in Ukraine.The scientists were en route to AIDS2014, the 20th international Aids conference. The event,...
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 …...
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
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
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...
Malaysia Airlines MH17 was flying just 1,000ft above restricted airspace
All flights now barred from eastern Ukraine, where airliner was downed, but UK carriers recently given all-clear to overfly areaMalaysia Airlines flight MH17 was flying just 1,000 feet (300 metres) above restricted airspace when it was shot down, according to the European air traffic control body.Eurocontrol said Ukrainian authorities had barred...
Missile destroys Malaysia Airlines plane and kills 295 people
Pro-Russia rebels are blamed as airliner is downed over Ukraine, close to Russian borderThe president of Ukraine accused Pro-Russian rebels in the east of the country of shooting down a Malaysia Airlines jet, killing all 280 passengers and 15 crew.The huge loss of life threatens to have wide-ranging and unpredictable consequences, coming just...
A history of aircraft that have been shot down
Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 may be the latest passenger aircraft to be brought down by militaries around the globe On 20 April 1978 two Soviet fighter jets intercepted Korean Air flight 902 near Murmansk after it veered off course. The jets reportedly fired at the plane after the pilot did not respond and it was forced to make an emergency...
