Malaysia Airlines 295 Penumpang Ditembak Jatuh di Ukraina?
Malaysian Airlines Carrying 295 People ´is Shot Down with Ground-to-air Missile´ at 33,000ft over Ukraine
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
Kiev (B2B) - Sebuah pesawat maskapai penerbangan Malaysia yang mengangkut 290 orang jatuh di Ukraina di dekat perbatasan Rusia, Kamis, demikian dilaporkan kantor berita Interfax dengan mengutip sumber pada industri penerbangan.
Pesawat berjenis Boeing itu sedang terbang dari Amsterdam menuju Kuala Lumpur, katanya, seperti dilansir Yahoo News.
Laporan Interfax mengatakan pesawat tersebut jatuh 50 kilometer sebelum memasuki wilayah udara Rusia.
Pesawat "mulai anjlok, dan kemudian ditemukan terbakar di darat di wilayah Ukraina," kata sumber yang tidak disebutkan namanya.
Pesawat tersebut tampaknya jatuh di wilayah aksi militer tempat pasukan pemerintah Ukraina sedang memerangi para gerilyawan separatis pro-Rusia.
Seorang sumber lainnya yang juga tidak disebutkan namanya --namun berasal dari kalangan aparat keamanan Ukraina yang dikutip Interfax, mengatakan pesawat itu menghilang dari radar pada ketinggian 10.000 meter dan kemudian jatuh di dekat kota Shakhtyorsk.
Kiev - A passenger plane which crashed as it flew over eastern Ukraine with 295 people on board was reportedly shot down.
The Malaysia Airlines plane, which was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was travelling at an altitude of 33,000 feet (10,000 metres) when it was shot down, Russia's Interfax reported.
An adviser to the Ukrainian interior ministry told the news agency the Boeing 777 was brought down by a Buk ground-to-air missile.
All 280 passengers and 15 crew members who were on the plane are believed to have died, he added.
A spokesman for Malaysia Airlines, still reeling from the loss of flight MH370 in March, confirmed it had lost contact with flight MH17, which took off from Amsterdam's Schipol airport at 12.15pm local time.
The flight disappeared from radar as it flew over Ukrainian airspace, the spokesman said.
A number of videos apparently filmed near the village of Grabovo, Donetsk, where the plane came down, showed plumes of thick, black smoke rising high into the air.
