A Malaysian Airlines passenger plane has been shot down on the Russian-Ukraine border, killing all 295 people on board, according to a Ukrainian interior ministry official.
Flight MH17, which was carrying 280 passengers and 15 crew, was flying from Amsterdam toKuala Lumpur after taking off at lunchtime today. The Interfax news agency reported that the aircraft went missing near Donetsk, where pro-Russian rebels have been fighting Ukrainian government forces.
TV pictures from the scene showed a pall of smoke billowing into the sky apparently from the
stricken aircraft. Witnesses say body parts are scattered over a distance of 15km, suggesting the plane broke up in mid-air.
It has emerged that the Ukrainian rebels who shot down the plane with BUK surface-to-air missile at 33,000ft around 20 miles before entering Russian airspace.
Filmed it and their militia commander Igor Strelkov, tweeted after the crash"
In the area Torez we just hit down Antonoc-26, it’s lying somewhere in the mine “Progress”.‘We warned you – do not fly in “our sky”. And here is the video confirmation of the “bird dropping”.‘Bird fell near the mine, the residential sector was not disturbed. Civilians are not injured.’
At the time, he apparently believed he had shot down an Antonov-26 military plane of the Ukrainian Air Force Plane. As soon as he must have realised the grave mistake,he deleted the tweet and video .
According to Mailonline, the Laughing rebels filmed the plane as it crashed, bragging ‘That was a blast – look at the smoke!’
A voice believed to be that of Strelkov – dubbed ‘Igor the Terrible’ – announces:
‘The plane was hit‘Look at those black spots, these are the parts, flying … it was a blast … look, look, black smoke!’
Another rebel, laughs and says:
‘It was worth bringing this thing, wasn’t it?
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