Deju Vu: Another Malaysian Airliner Down - this time over Ukraine
July 21, 2014
The slaughtered innocents: Smiling happily in family snapshots, the child victims of MH17, before they were blasted from the sky
Smiling in happy family snapshots, these are the innocent child victims of Flight MH17. They are among the 80 youngsters thought to have been on board the doomed jet as they travelled with their families on holiday or to visit relatives. Australian mother Rin Norris lost her father Nick and her three children Mo, 12, Evie, ten and eight-year-old Otis.The children were flying home with their grandfather after a family holiday in Europe, while Miss Norris and partner Anthony Maslin stayed in Amsterdam for a few extra days. Three babies were among the dead, including 21-month-old Kaela Goes, killed with her parents as they flew home to Malaysia after visiting relatives in Holland.
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The Boeing 777 aircraft was hit by a sophisticated surface-to-air missile over territory near Donetsk held by pro-Russian rebels who the Ukrainian government says are backed by the Kremlin. The Ukrainian authorities laid the blame for the attack on the rebels by denying any responsibility for the missile launch. TV pictures from the scene showed a pall of smoke billowing into the sky near Donetsk, apparently from the stricken flight MH17. Witnesses say body parts are scattered over a distance of 15km, suggesting the plane broke up in mid-air.
NEW Cor Pan (right) is believed to have posted this picture of the Malaysian Airlines plane at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport with the caption 'If it disappears, this is what it looks like'.
Was MH17 flying through warzone to save fuel? Planes in area of crash site pictured flying away from Ukraine as questions are raised as to why they were travelling over countrySafety watchdogs will investigate the doomed passenger jet's flight plan to see why the aircraft was flying through a warzone.
Scenes reminiscent of MH370 disaster as distraught MH17 relatives gather at airports to learn the fate of their missing loved ones
Between five and 10 British passengers were among the 295 killed when a Malaysian Airlines plane was 'shot down' on the Russia-Ukraine border, it has been revealed.
'We warned you not to fly in our sky': Russian separatist boasted they had just downed Ukrainian transport plane, minutes before news of crash emerged
'This is bad news for Russia': Obama and the West to come down hard if Russian-backed separatists are proven to have shot down flight MH17If it emerges that pro-Russian separatists did bring down MH17 it will further increase Vladmir Putin's status as a pariah on the world stage.
What shot down MH17? Soviet-built BUK surface-to-air missile launcher believed to have brought down Malaysia Airlines flight
BUK missile launchers are capable of taking down aircraft the size of a Boeing 777 flying at a cruising altitude of 33,000 feet, meaning the intensity of the impact is likely to have blown the plane apart in the sky.
Ukraine is 'no fly' zone after attack as major airlines avoid country entirely British Airways, Emirates and Virgin Atlantic are among a number of providers who have redirected flights away from Ukrainian airspace
