Written By Funchum on Friday, July 18, 2014 | 7:18:00 AM
The Malaysia Airlines MH17 was flying 1000 feet above restricted airspace from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was shot down near the village of Grabovo, An area controlled by pro-Russian separatists.

Malaysia Airlines confirmed that it has lost contact with Flight MH17 and it's last know position was over the Ukrainian  Airspace.


Report said Ukrainian authorities had barred the aircraft up tp 32,000 feet but the aircraft was cruising 33,000 feet, still within the range of a surface-to-air missile. 15 crew and 280 passengers were killed.

Kyung Lah, A CNN National Correspondent posted a list on Twitter of some passenger's nationalities board in MH17. 3 of them are Filipinos.

Photo by: Dmitry Leovetsky, Guardian, AP

The Ukrainian government accused the pro-Russia rebels for downing a jet. Pres. Petro Poroshenko said that is not an accident or catastrophe but an act of terrorism.

US intelligence also have confirmed that a surface-to-air missile brought down the Plane

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