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| Malaysia airliner crashes in east Ukraine near Russia border | |
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| A Malaysian airliner reportedly with 295 people on board has crashed in Ukraine near the Russian border, on a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. | |
| Malaysia Airlines said it had lost contact with Flight MH17 from Amsterdam. The last known position was over Ukraine, it said in a tweet. | Malaysia Airlines said it had lost contact with Flight MH17 from Amsterdam. The last known position was over Ukraine, it said in a tweet. |
| An aviation source in Moscow told Reuters the plane had been found burning on the ground in east Ukraine. | |
| Separatist rebels have been fighting government forces in the region. | |
| Analysis: Jonathan Beale, BBC News | |
| A defence expert has told the BBC that shooting down a plane at 10,000m (9.7 miles) would have required a long- range surface-to-air missile - possibly guided by radar. | |
| That suggests it is unlikely it could have been downed by a portable air defence missile, or Manpad, which has a much shorter range. | |
| The only other possibility is for an aircraft at that height to be downed by a fighter carrying air-to-air missiles. | |
| The US will have access to satellite imagery that should be able to identify ultra-violet plumes if a long-range surface-to-air missile was fired. | |
| A number of Ukrainian military planes have been shot down by missiles in recent weeks. Ukraine has accused Russia's military of supplying advanced missiles to the rebels. | |
| Earlier on Thursday, Ukrainian officials blamed the Russian air force for shooting down one of its ground attack jets on Wednesday. | |
| Anton Herashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine's interior minister, was quoted by the Associated Press as saying the plane had been hit by a missile at an altitude of 10,000m (33,000ft). The claim could not be verified independently. | |
| The source which spoke to Reuters about burning wreckage on the ground said the plane had failed to enter Russian airspace. | |
| The UK Foreign Office said it was aware of the reports of the crash and was "urgently working to establish what has happened". | |
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