The Malaysian Airlines MH17 was shot down by the Ukraine militants on this Thursday, July 17, 2014. More than 300 people died in this crash and among them majority of the people were dutch as the flight was coming from the Amsterdam airport to Malaysia. Many international news paper like the The Dawn, reported that it was hit by a missile which is of type ground-to-air.
Malaysian airlines official Twitter account says that the plane was flying at a height of 10,000 meter when it lost the contact with the control room. Below are some images of the crash site from international news media.
You can also watch a small video from the crashed site:
The list of the passengers according to their nationality so far is given below:
The number of passengers and crew according to nationality are as follows:
Netherlands 154
Malaysia 43 (including 15 crew & 2 infants)
Australia 27
Indonesia 12 (including 1 infant)
United Kingdom 9
Germany 4
Belgium 4
Philippines 3
Canada 1
Unverified 41
Total 298
On the other hand, a senior official said a radar saw a surface to air missile system turn on and track an aircraft just before the aircraft shot down. (- source: CNN). The Malaysian prime-minister said the plane never made a distress call.
Now the question comes, where the business of Malaysian Airlines in the near future? This is really a big question and a big challenge for the Malaysian Airlines. This airlines faced two tragedy within 5 months. The previous one was with MH370 and the new one is MH17. Many experts has already commented that the 9th largest commercial airlines in the world will be no where in near future.
Another news already suggested that a Pro-Russian Rebel Commander already posted in his social media profile, “We did warn you — do not fly in our sky,”.
I am sure that some serious question will surely peep into the readers mind whether the rebel groups are so sophisticated? This is a normal that a plane which is flying in a height of 10,000 m, very sophisticated weapons are required to shot down that plane. So, the rebel groups are so powerful? Ukrine has already accused Russia for supplying sophisticated weapons to the rebels.
