According to information available, the plane was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur

MOSCOW, July 17. /ITAR-TASS/. A Malaysia Airlines Boeing-777 passenger plane crashed in Ukraine 60 km from the Russian border. All of the 285 people aboard it are believed to be dead, a source in the Russian air traffic community said. A source in air traffic control circles said earlier that there were no Russian citizens on board.

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Preliminary information about the Boeing 777 crash According to information available, the flight #‎MH17‬ was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia Airlines plane en route to Kuala Lumpur departed on Thursday from Amsterdam without delays nearly at 12:00 local time (10:00 UTC), the press service of Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport told ITAR-TASS. The press service added that experts are currently checking the reports on the possible catastrophe. “We are looking into the situation, and we haven’t got any information on this yet,” the press service said. A source in air traffic control circles noted that the airliner flying at the altitude of more than 10 thousand meters was supposed to enter the Russian air space at 17:20 Moscow standard time (13:20 UTC). “However, it fell down in 60 km from the border; the plane’s emergency location beacon went off,” the source said. Ukrainian media report that the plane crashed in the Donetsk region, near the Grabovo village. Meanwhile, representatives of the command of the military operation carried out by Kiev authorities in the country’s east have stated about the identification of the spot where the passenger plane fell down “north from Torez”. The Boeing 777 haven’t communicated with Russian air traffic controllers.

KIEV'S REACTION Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko demanded to create a state commission involving ICAO experts, as well as representatives of the Netherlands and Malaysia to investigate the tragedy with the Malaysia Airlines plane. Boeing 777 airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur disappeared from the radars and fell down on the territory of Ukraine. According to the press service of the Ukrainian president, “Ukraine’s Armed Forces did not commit any actions aimed at air target damaging”. Continue