Malaysian airliner shot down near Ukraine-Russian border

[tsubaki]

Breaking news on all channels

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ne-crashes-on-Ukraine-Russia-border-live.html

 

[welshtoffee]

Flying to Orlando tomorrow morning, thats just put me a bit more on bloody edge !!!...Rip to all on board.

 

[hktoffee]

Again? This airline company are going to close down are they?

 

[ianefc]

Incredible, 295 people. So sad, Shot down some rumours have it.

 

[phildp]

Will have serious repercussions if it's been shot down as not Ukraine or Russian plane. RIP to all on board.
But why is an airline flying over that border?

 

[wm02]

That's terrible to hear.

 

[Eggs]

.......shot down, though, is amazing. Tragic.

 

[dannythomas89]

Hope besic wasnt on that plane

 

[Duncan Disordely]

Ukraine Interior minister claiming hit by surface to air missile. If that's found to have come from Russian or Ukrainian forces there'll be there'll be massive repercussions from the UN

 

[EFCNIK]

It's all about to go doooown.

 

[ijjysmith]

Who the hell the shoots down a passenger airline for Christ's sake?!

 

[blue4eva77]

Hope besic wasnt on that plane

Seriously there is a time for jokes, this isn't one of them

 

[micknick]

Hope besic wasnt on that plane

You're an idiot.

This is bad news.

 

[moosed]

This is going to be really really bad...

Almost certainly shot down

 

[rascal]

When I saw the tweet from Radio 5 Live I thought that someone had made a mistake in the tweet, my mind was on the missing one from February. This is simply horrible news, some trigger happy twunt with an SAM has just wiped out 300 innocent lives

edit: Unlikely to be a SAM due to height.