A Malaysian airliner carrying 295 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur has crashed in rebel-held east Ukraine on Thursday. Malaysia Airlines confirmed it had “lost contact” with flight MH17.
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Emergencies workers at the site of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane crash in the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk region on July 17, 2014. Maxim Zmeyev/Reuters -
Flight MH17 as it was taking off at 12.31pm from Schiphol airport near Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Fred Neeleman/EPA -
Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko believes that pro-Russian insurgents had shot down a Malaysian Airlines jet in the rebel-held east, and views it as a ‘terrorist act’. Maxim Zmeyev/Reuters -
Pro-Russian rebels fighting central Kiev authorities claimed on Thursday that the Malaysian airline that crashed in Ukraine had been shot down by a Ukrainian jet. Maxim Zmeyev/Reuters -
Eyewitnesses quoted by Russian news agency RIA Novosti spoke of dozens of bodies at the crash site. Dominique Faget/AFP Photo -
The Boeing 777 aircraft was expected in the Malaysian capital at around 6:00 am on Friday (2200 GMT Thursday), Malaysia Airlines said. Dominique Faget/AFP Photo -
People stand next to the wreckage of the Malaysian airliner. Dominique Faget/AFP Photo -
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said on his Twitter feed he was ‘shocked by reports that an MH plane crashed.’ Dominique Faget/AFP Photo -
Ukraine’s Poroshenko expressed his ‘deepest and sincerest sympathies for the families and loved ones of those killed’ and vowed that ‘those behind this tragedy will be brought to justice’. Dominique Faget/AFP Photo
In pictures: Malaysian plane crashes over Ukraine’s airspace
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