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    Anguish in Amsterdam as Families of Flight MH17 Passengers Arrive at Airport
    Jul18

    Anguish in Amsterdam as Families of Flight MH17 Passengers Arrive at Airport

    Friday, July 18 , 2014 - 1:24 (EEST) Section: Time (USA)

    The relatives started arriving at Schiphol Airport as the sun began to set on a warm Amsterdam evening. They gathered briefly, bewildered, at a bar area inside the departure hall before police ushered them onto airport shuttle buses to an undisclosed location in the airport, where they would start their anguished wait for news of family members...

    4 Other Times Commercial Flights Got Shot Down
    Jul18

    4 Other Times Commercial Flights Got Shot Down

    Friday, July 18 , 2014 - 1:24 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    U.S. officials have confirmed that a surface-to-air missile hit the Malaysia Airlines flight that went down over Ukraine on Thursday. As NPR notes, it’s rare for a civilian airliner to be shot down from the air even though it’s not unheard of. Here are four other notable instances of passenger planes being shot down: Feb. 21, 1973:...

    Buk missile suspected in Malaysia plane disaster
    Jul18

    Buk missile suspected in Malaysia plane disaster

    Friday, July 18 , 2014 - 1:06 (EEST) Section: KXAN (USA)

    LONDON (AP) — The Malaysia Airlines jet was flying far above the range of conventional portable anti-aircraft launchers when it was destroyed Thursday — but it was well within the altitude range of the powerful Buk missile-launcher. That Russian-made system was blamed by an adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister for the...

    Ukraine: Intercepted phone conversations showed rebels were responsible for shooting down plane
    Jul18

    Ukraine: Intercepted phone conversations showed rebels were responsible for shooting down plane

    Friday, July 18 , 2014 - 1:04 (EEST) Section: CNY Central (USA)

    Ukraine’s security services produced what they said were two intercepted telephone conversations that they said showed rebels were responsible for downing a Malaysian airliner. …read more Source: CNY...

    Britain calls for emergency UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine
    Jul18

    Britain calls for emergency UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine

    Friday, July 18 , 2014 - 1:04 (EEST) Section: CNY Central (USA)

    Britain has asked for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Ukraine. …read more Source: CNY...

    Official says Malaysian airliner shot down over Ukraine
    Jul18

    Official says Malaysian airliner shot down over Ukraine

    Friday, July 18 , 2014 - 1:04 (EEST) Section: CNY Central (USA)

    New story and photos: A Ukrainian official said the passenger jet carrying 295 people was shot down by a missile. …read more Source: CNY...

    Watch: Crews sift through wreckage of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17
    Jul18

    Watch: Crews sift through wreckage of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17

    Friday, July 18 , 2014 - 1:00 (EEST) Section: CBS (USA)

    Video shows the large scattering of debris after a Malaysia Airlines passenger plane carrying 295 people crashed in eastern Ukraine. Large pieces of the airliner, as well as several passports from those aboard the doomed flight, were strewn across a large field. …read more Source:...

    Malaysia plane crashed in area of severe recent fighting
    Jul18

    Malaysia plane crashed in area of severe recent fighting

    Friday, July 18 , 2014 - 1:00 (EEST) Section: CBS (USA)

    Ukraine’s military, pro-Russian separatists have had several disputes over planes being shot down over eastern Ukraine in recent days …read more Source:...

    Why Was MH17 Over Eastern Ukraine, Anyway?
    Jul18

    Why Was MH17 Over Eastern Ukraine, Anyway?

    Friday, July 18 , 2014 - 1:00 (EEST) Section: Time (USA)

    Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was hardly alone in the skies over eastern Ukraine when it was apparently shot down on a route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Airline routes are like highways—there’s a lot of traffic on them. And there were other flights from other airlines in the Ukraine corridor, including an Aeroflot jet that...

    Watch: Ukraine’s Airspace Emptied Out After MH17 Crashed
    Jul18

    Watch: Ukraine’s Airspace Emptied Out After MH17 Crashed

    Friday, July 18 , 2014 - 1:00 (EEST) Section: Time (USA)

    After MH17 crashed in eastern Ukraine, air traffic data suggest that more and more flights that weren’t Ukraine-bound began to skirt around the country’s borders. Flight patterns appeared to shift towards a path along Ukraine’s eastern borders hours after MH17′s burning debris was located in eastern Urkaine, as seen in the...