Chandigarh: Months after the major MH370 tragedy, another Malaysia passenger airliner MH17 has crashed in Eastern Ukraine near the Russian border. The Ukrainian military has also confirmed the crash, meanwhile, the Malaysia Airlines on its official Twitter handle wrote that the that the contact with the airlines was lost and that the plane's last known position was over the Ukrainian airspace.
Reportedly, there were 295 people, including 15 crew members, on board the Boeing 777-200 aircraft which was flying from Amsterdan to Kuala Lumpur. All on board the plane feared to be dead in the crash.
The plane which flew from the Amsterdam airport at 12:10 pm local time was suppose to land at Kuala Lumpur airport at 6:00 AM local time.
Malaysian Prime Minister Mohd Najib Tun Razak said that he's shocked with the reports of the plane crash, adding that an immediate investigation into the crash has been launched.
It is also being speculated that the airliner has been shot down by the separatists. However, there is no official confirmation of the reports saying that the plane was fired at.
Ukraine pro-Russia rebels said that they didn't shoot down airliner, and blamed the Ukrainian armed forces.
Only a highly sophisticated weapon system can shoot down a plane flying at an altitude which the flight MH17 was flying at.
The Boeing passenger liner came down close to town of Shaktarsk region of Donetsk, where the Pro-Russians rebels are fighting with the Ukrainian security forces, after it disappeared from the radar.
This is the second major tragedy with which the Malaysia Airlines have been struck in a matter of few months. Flight number MH370 with around 250 people on board mysteriously disappeared in March this year. The search for that plane is still going on near the Indian Ocean.
