From the Blaze:
An adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister said a passenger plane carrying 295 people was shot down Thursday over the eastern part of the country, the Associated Press is reporting.
Anton Gerashenko said the plane was flying at an altitude of about 33,000 feet when it was hit by a missile fired from a surface-to-air launcher, according to the AP.
DAILY MAIL –
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2696161/BREAKING-NEWS-Malaysian-passenger-plane-carrying-295-people-crashes-Ukraine-near-Russian-border.html
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Details of the missile that was reportedly used.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/missile-launcher-malaysia-airlines-flight-developed-soviet-union-article-1.1870563
Local resident (Russian): “They were sitting at the altitude, there were two planes flying, one came from the clouds.”
SOT Journalist asking question (Russian): “Were those military planes?”
SOT Local resident (Russian): “[My son] does not know. Then the second plane was hit by one shot. And that’s it. There was one shot, he says. He says, one plane fell, and the second fell too. My phone got off (got discharged), I can’t call him.”