KIEV: A Malaysia Airlines passenger airliner with 295 people on board crashed in Ukraine near the Russian border yesterday, the Interfax news agency cited an aviation industry source as saying.
The Boeing plane was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, it said.
The Boeing plane was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, it said.
The Interfax report said the plane came down 50km (20 miles) short of entering Russian airspace. It “began to drop, afterwards it was found burning on the ground on Ukrainian territory,” the unnamed source said.
The plane appeared to have come down in a region of military action where Ukrainian government forces are battling pro-Russian separatists.
