A MALAYSIAN airliner carrying 295 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur has crashed in rebel-held east Ukraine, with 27 Australians believed to be among the dead. The Ukrainian government said the plane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile.
Malaysia Airlines said it had “lost contact” with flight MH17, 30km from the Tamak waypoint, 50km from the Russian-Ukraine border after 12am. The plane came down near the town of Shaktarsk, in the Donetsk region.
The crash comes just four months after the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which remains missing.
