Section: US & Canada
Smoking gun? Intercepted calls point finger at Russian separatists in jet downing
Intercepted phone calls purportedly between Russian military intelligence officers and members of a pro-Russian separatist group appear to capture the moment the rebels realized the plane they shot down was a civilian passenger plane, could be the smoking gun that helps prove Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over Ukraine by the...
Finger-pointing intensifies over jet shoot-down
As Ukrainian separatists and Kiev deny shooting down Malaysia Airlines jet, Russia claims “activity” at Ukrainian military missile site …read more Source:...
Advanced satellite company DigitalGlobe sets sights on Ukraine
Same company that 8 million people logged on to when Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 fell off the radar is now putting its efforts toward Flight 17 …read more Source:...
Malaysia jet’s recorders in rebel hands
Pro-Russian separatists in east Ukraine — prime suspects in downing of jet carrying 298 — control access to crash site as Russia blames Ukrainian military …read more Source:...
Flight MH17’s doomed flight path a ‘common route’ for European carriers
The Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 catastrophe in Ukraine could have been a tragedy for another international carrier, aviation experts say, noting the doomed jet’s flight plan was the very route that was, until recently, used by several European airlines. …read more Source:...
AIDS movement ‘lost a giant’ on Flight MH17 as researchers, activists believed killed
A large number of world-renowned AIDS researchers and activists heading to an international conference in Australia were on board a Malaysian jetliner that was shot down over Ukraine, officials said Friday. …read more Source:...
Australian loses family in both Malaysian flight disasters
In an almost incomprehensible twist of fate, an Australian woman who lost her brother in the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 learned on Friday that her stepdaughter was on the plane shot down over Ukraine. …read more Source: CTV...
Rebels claim they have MH17 black boxes
Emergency workers, police officers and even off-duty coal miners — dressed in overalls and covered in soot — searched through wreckage and bodies scattered across sunflower fields and Ukrainian villages Friday after a Malaysian jetliner flying high above the country’s battlefield was shot down, killing 298 people. …read...
Australian loses family in both Malaysian flight disasters; ‘it’s … ripped our guts again’
An Australian woman who lost her brother in the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has now learned that her stepdaughter was on the Malaysia Airlines flight shot down over Ukraine. …read more Source: FOX...
Australian PM Angry At Russia’s ‘Unsatisfactory’ Response To Plane Crash
An angry Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott demanded an independent inquiry into the crash of a Malaysian jetliner in eastern Ukraine. In a televised statement July 18 in Canberra, the Australian leader said Russia’s response to the disaster was “deeply unsatisfactory.” Abbott criticized Russia’s ambassador to...
