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Malaysian Airlines Plane Shot Down With Ground-to-Air Missile – All 295 Believed to be Dead, Including 23 Americans
Freedom Outpost
With the mystery continuing to surround Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370, a Malyasian Airlines Boeing 777 (Flight MH17) was shot down on Thursday. All 295 aboard are presumed dead.
The flight was scheduled to travel from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, but was brought down in the Ukraine, an area that has been in civil war for several months.
According to an adviser to the ukrainian interior ministry, the Boeing 777 was brought down by a Buk ground-to-air missile as it flew at an altitude of roughly 6.2 miles. According to reports, debris and bodies were strewn across a nine mile area.
An immediate investigation has been ordered by Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
According to a tweet that went out, the plane had just passed Kremenchuk, about 186 miles from the Russian border, when it disappeared.
Malaysia Airlines flight #MH17 just before it disappeared over Ukraine.pic.twitter.com/xvDHsEQtkg
— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) July 17, 2014
Fox News reports:
Fox News confirmed that the flight manifest included the names of 23 Americans, though State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said at a briefing Thursday, “we don’t have any additional details at this point on American citizens” aboard the plane.
“Obviously, we’re seeking that information as we speak,” Psaki said.
The incident touched off immediate finger-pointing between Russian separatists and the Ukrainian government. Eastern Ukraine separatist leader Alexander Borodai told Reuters that Ukrainian military forces shot the jet down, but Kiev denied involvement and labeled the incident a “terrorist act.”
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