Four months after the MH370 went missing, Malaysia is now facing another tragic event when flight MH17 crashed on Thursday, July 17.
The Malaysia Airlines passenger jet carrying nearly 300 people has crashed over eastern Ukraine. Officials said that the aircraft, a Boeing 777-200, fell from the sky near the town of Torez in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. The said incident spurred accusations from Ukrainian officials that “terrorists” shot down the aircraft. One Ukrainian official said that the plane, which was on its way from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was flying at about 10,000 meters when it was hit by a highly-developed surface-to-air missile over a territory held by pro-Russians.
Watch the footage of the scene from the crash site.
Warning: Extremely Graphic
Included on the list of passengers aboard MH17 are 154 Dutch, 43 Malaysian (including 15 crew), 27 Australian, 12 Indonesian, 9 British, 4 German, 4 Belgian, 3 Filipino, 1 Canadian, and 41 others who are still not verified.
Though the United States has concluded that the missile shot down the plane, it has not pinpointed who was responsible. The Russian president has also blamed Ukraine for the tragedy, but has not denied that the Russian-backed separatists were to blame for shooting it out of the sky.
In the middle of this shocking incident and confusing speculations, a massive investigation is badly needed to be launched.
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The group of people who fired their missile on a commercial MH17 are not only ignorant, but trigger happy and are inclined to kill people. The commercial passenger plane is much different than a military one. the commercia plane has different markings and FLASHING LIGHTS while on flight. Commercial planes have TRANSFONDER which provide the signal to ground control while it is on it’s FLIGHT PATH. The Plane can be seen by BINOCULAR or by RADAR. The speed of commercial plane is much slower than the military one. Some military planes are too fast for missiles.The people manning the mobile missile sites are only blood thirsty and want to kill people,civilian people.