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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...

    UN chief calls for Ukraine crash investigation
    Jul18

    UN chief calls for Ukraine crash investigation

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

    The U.N. secretary-general says “there is clearly a need for a full and transparent international investigation” into the plane crash in Ukraine. …read more Source: Miami...

    Putin Blames Malaysia Plane Crash On Ukraine’s Renewal Of Military Campaign
    Jul18

    Putin Blames Malaysia Plane Crash On Ukraine’s Renewal Of Military Campaign

    Friday, July 18 , 2014 - 1:00 (EEST) Section: The Huffington Post (USA)

    MOSCOW, July 18 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday said Ukraine bore responsibility for the downing of a passenger plane in the country’s east, saying it would not have happened if Kiev had not resumed a military campaign against separatists. “This tragedy would not have happened, if there had been peace on...

    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:...