A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY 295 HUMAN BEINGS DIED IN AN AIRPLAN

Malaysia Airlines MH17 shot out of sky by surface-to-air missile in what Ukrainian president calls ‘terrorist act’

President Obama calls the crash a ‘terrible tragedy’ as U.S. works to confirm there were 23 Americans were on board. The flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was reportedly shot down on Ukrainian-Russian border, killing all 295 people aboard.

Thursday, July 17, 2014

Dmitry Lovetsky/AP People walk among the debris at the crash site of a Boeing 777-200ER near the village of Grabovo, Ukraine.

A Malaysia Airlines passenger plane with 295 people aboard was blown out of the sky Thursday by a surface-to-air missile in a possible terrorist attack.
The Boeing 777 commercial airliner, headed for Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam, went down about 25 miles from the Russian border in Ukraine — sending a plume of smoke into the sky after crashing, authorities said.
All aboard, including a reported 23 American passengers, were presumed dead.
The Wall Street Journal, quoting U.S. intelligence officials, reported the doomed flight was targeted with the missile fired from somewhere in the volatile region.
Shattered bodies, burning luggage and crumpled wreckage from the doomed flight were scattered across a massive nine-mile debris field, with graphic and gruesome pictures appearing on Twitter.

New York Daily News Reports show the flight was heading from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. It crashed near Donetsk, a stronghold for the pro-Russian separatists.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko left no doubt that he believed the killing of 280 passengers and 15 crew members on Flight MH17 was the work of terrorist.
“We are not calling it an accident or a disaster, but an act of terrorism,” he said, calling for an international investigation.
The Ukrainian government reportedly has recordings of intercepted calls between Russian intelligence and terrorist discussing the “shoot-down” of a Malaysia Airlines jet, according to CNN.
“We have just shot down a plane,” said a Russian military officer in a translation of the chatter made public by Ukraine officials.

Part of the wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines plane.