27 australians missing on downed malaysian flight

[viewmont1071]

http://www.thereporter.com.au/news/malaysia-airlines-flight-mh17-shot-down-over-ukrai/2322591/

DUTCH authorities have confirmed that 27 Australians were among the 295 on board the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 which crashed overnight.

Anyone with concerns about friends or family, contact the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on 1300 555 135

DFAT: 'Grave concerns' for Australians on board MH17

[tall_bearded01]

It would appear it was shot down

[viewmont1071]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17

links at botton of wiki page

http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/07/18/MH17-unofficial-nationality-list/

PETALING JAYA: The unofficial list of the MH17 flight manifest states that 20 Malaysians and two infants were on board the plane that was reportedly shot down by insurgents near the Russian-Ukrainian border.

The highest number of passengers are from Netherlands with 143 passengers. Australia comes in second with 27 passengers.

There were 11 Indonesian passengers and one infant on-board the ill-fated flight. Britain has six passengers, France and Germany have four each, Belgium have three and Canada one.

Nationalities of the other 58 passengers were not stated in the list. 15 MAS crew members were on the plane.

MH17 was brought down over eastern Ukraine on Thursday, killing all 295 people aboard and sharply raising the stakes in

a conflict between Kiev and pro-Moscow rebels in which Russia and the West back opposing sides

[i-need-a-martini]

What a vile thing to do to a passenger jet.

Hopefully the world will now take note of the conflict which seems to have been ignored to date.

[fiestas*girl]

it didnt crash by accident

some stupid nutjob in the Ukraine shot it down with a missile

[fiestas*girl]

oh opps sorry, i was too slow to post

[viewmont1071]

I don't think it crashed....the report was being careful in its accusations

US intelligence has been able to confirm that a ground to air missile was launched.

Putin phoned Obama to tell him about it..... and it is reported apologized???

The separatists have retrieved the black boxes...

[cherry*135]

"Dutch news channel NOS said at least 154 Dutch citizens were aboard the aircraft. 27 Australians, 23, Malaysians, 11, Indonesian, six British, four German, four Belgian, three Filipinos and one Canadian were also on board. The nationalities of the remaining passengers have not yet been announced."

[viewmont1071]

http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-separatist-leader-boasts-downing-plane/25460930.html

that's what you get for bragging before you confirm what you have shot down

Shortly before reports surfaced that a Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 had crashed in eastern Ukraine, a social media site purported to belong to a separatist leader claimed that insurgents had shot down an aircraft.

In a post on VKontakte, Russia's largest social media site, which has since been taken down, separatist leader Igor Girkin, aka Strelkov, wrote:  "In the vicinity of Torez, we just downed a plane, an AN-26. It is lying somewhere in the Progress Mine. We have issued warnings not to fly in our airspace. We have video confirming. The bird fell on a waste heap. Residential areas were not hit. Civilians were not injured."

The AN-26 is a Soviet-built twin-engine transport plane used by the Ukrainian military. Torez is a small city of 80,000 located some 40 kilometers east of Donetsk.  Included in the post were two videos that showed a rising plume of black smoke in the distance.

The claim was posted at 5:50 pm Moscow time, shortly before reports surfaced that the Malaysian civilian aircraft, on a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, had crashed in eastern Ukraine in the same area near the Russian border. 

A Ukrainian Interior Ministry adviser, Anton Herashchenko, claimed the plane had been shot down by a ground-to-air missile.

Andrei Purgin, the self-styled first vice premier of the unrecognized Donetsk People's Republic, told Interfax the separatists do not have weapons that could shoot down a plane flying at an altitude of 10,000 meters.

Both Ukrainian and Russian authorities have denied shooting down the Malaysian passenger aircraft.

[nicnacs_4u]

What a tragedy..RIP to those that have lost their lives..Hearing on the box that the black box has disappeared,maybe we will never know what occured..a very very sad day