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karangan ~PakKaramu~ on 7/17/2014

Live updates: Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 disaster

updated 08:45
By onenews.co.nz's Renee Girven
Published: 6:11AM Friday July 18, 2014 Source: ONE News
All the latest information, images and video on the Malaysia Airlines crash.
Key information: 

- 295 people were on board plane that crashed in eastern Ukraine. There were no survivors.
- Ukrainian, Russian and rebel leaders deny involvement
- MFAT looking into whether any New Zealanders onboard.

8.40am: US Vice President Joe Biden says Flight MH17 was shot down. He says it was "not an accident", saying it was "blown out of the sky".

8.32am: One person commented on Cor Pan's photo: "I can't believe this ... totally broken. Rest in peace."

Another posted: "Rest in peace Cor and Neeltje."
Cor Pan's status on Facebook is "in a relationship with Neeltje Tol."
Initially, friends had responded with joyful messages.
"Happy holidays! No crazy things though that's the gods requests!" wrote one.
8.24am: A Dutch man, Cor Pan, posted a picture of what is believed to be flight MH17 and a caption which roughly translates as
"Should it disappear, this is what it looks like."

 
8.21am: Vice-president Joe Biden says a US team will go to Ukraine "to determine what happened".

8.16am: The Telegraph earlier reported that the Ukrainian security services claimed to intercepted conversations proving that Russia and pro-Russian separatists were responsible for downing MH17. The  Kyiv Post has now translated the conversation  released by the Ukrainian government.

The Telegraph says the first call is reportedly between a Russian military intelligence officer and a separatist commander. On the call, the officer reportedly says:"We have just shot down a plane".

8.08am: Britain is reportedly requesting a meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss the downing of the Malaysian aircraft.

8.01am: Laurent Fabius, France's Minister of Foreign Affairs, confirmed to CNN that there were at least four French victims on the plane.

7.50am: New Zealand Masterchef winner and cookbook author Chelsea Winter said her husband was close to being on Flight MH17 because his flight on an earlier plane had been overbooked. She said he was the last person to board the earlier flight.


7.49am:  Teams are moving through the dark field where the plane crashed with flashlights and dogs.

7.45am: Malaysia has greeted news of the MH17 crash with disbelief and horror.

7.38am:  FlightRadar24  is a website that provides global flight tracking. The site provides this data:
 
 
 
7.35am:  FlightRadar24 is a website that provides global flight tracking. The site provides this data:
  
 
 
7.34am: A journalist at the scene says for the most part all the debris are burnt out and charred.

7.33am: VIDEO COVERAGE: 
7.32am: The head of Ukrainian Emergency Situations says search efforts at the crash scene are being hampered by "armed terrorists".
7.31am: The International Air Transport Association, the global airline body based in Geneva, says: "Based on the information currently available, it is believed that the airspace that the aircraft was traversing was not subject to restrictions."

7.28am: The Ukrainian security services apparently released what they say are recordings proving that Russian military intelligence ordered MH17 to be shot down. These have since been removed from YouTube.

7.20am: O'Brien, who is a reporter for Al Jazeera, told TV ONE's Breakfast there are claims from separatists that they have found the black box and that they are going to give it to Moscow.

She says the separatists say they don't have the weapons for this kind of attack, but she says there has been some information that they have taken these weapons from the Ukrainian army in the heavy battles.

7.18am: Alexi O'Brien says a local military commander posted "a plane has been shot down we warned you about flying above our area and apparently this tweet has since been deleted so everybody is pointing the finger and everybody else."

The Telegraph says the message on Igor Stelkov's Vkontakte page  was posted at 17:50 Moscow time, about an hour before news of the 777 crash broke:
"Message from the militia:

"In the district of Torez an An-26 was just shot down. It crashed somewhere near the Progress mine. We warned them not to fly in "our skies". Here is video confirmation of the latest "fallen bird". The bird landed outside the residential zone, no peaceful civilians were injured."

7.17am: Former ONE News reporter Alexi O'Brien is at the scene and she says there is very tight security there. She says it is quite intimidating.
7.15am: Pictures from the scene:
 
7.11am:  "I've never seen anything like it," one local rebel fighter told Journalist Noah Schneider. 
7.10am: Air France said it had "taken the decision to no longer fly over eastern Ukraine as soon as it heard of the event."
7.09am: ITV News reports there were nine British citizens on the plane.
7.07am: Flowers have been laid at the Dutch embassy in Kiev, following reports 71 Dutch citizens died in the crash.  
7am: Aviation expert Peter Clark says it will be difficult for Malaysia Airlines to recover from this second incident.

6.59am: US Senator John McCain says there will be "hell to pay" if it turned out that the Malaysia Airlines passenger plane was shot down by Russia or separatists.

6.57am: "I was working in the field on my tractor when I heard the sound of a plane and then a bang and shots," a witness called Vladimir told Reuters.
 "Then I saw the plane hit the ground and break in two. There was thick black smoke."
 
6.54am: Russia's emergency services have reportedly asked the Ukrainian government for permission to work at the crash site.

6.50am: Other passenger planes have been shot down before including:

— April 20, 1978: Korean Airlines Flight 902, which diverted from its planned course on a flight from Paris to Seoul and strayed over the Soviet Union. After being fired upon by an interceptor aircraft, the crew made a forced landing at night on the surface of a frozen lake. Two of the 97 passengers were killed by the hostile fire.

— September 1, 1983: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 shot down by at least one Soviet air-to-air missile after the 747 had strayed into Soviet airspace. All 240 passengers and 29 crew were killed.

— July 3, 1988: Iran Air Flight 655 Aircraft was shot down by a surface to air missile from the American naval vessel U.S.S. Vincennes. All 16 crew and 274 passengers were killed.
6.48am: British Airways has joined the growing list of airliners avoiding Ukrainian airspace, as has Turkish Airlines and Russia's Aeroflot.

6.44am: A New York Times reporter at the scene says many of the bodies were still in their seat belts.

6.43am: A statement from Downing Street:
"British officials were due to meet this evening to take stock of the Malaysian air disaster, including the possibility that British nationals were on board. It is likely that meeting will be largely practical and an assessment of what is known, as opposed to any ministerial political action."
6.42am: 
6.41am: 
6.36am: Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov has called allegations that Russia was involved in the downing of MH17 "stupidity", the Guardian reports.

6.30am: The plane appeared to have broken up before impact and the burning wreckage was scattered over a wide area.

6.28am: Separatist leader Andrei Purgin told The Associated Press that he was certain that Ukrainian troops had shot the plane down but gave no explanation or proof for his statement.

6.26am: An Associated Press journalist counted at least 22 bodies at the crash site 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the Russian border.

6.24am: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called the downing an act of terrorism and called for an international investigation into the crash.

 Poroshenko said his country's armed forces didn't shoot at any airborne targets.
 
"We do not exclude that this plane was shot down, and we stress that the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not take action against any airborne targets," he said.

 "We are sure that those who are guilty in this tragedy will be held responsible."
 
6.23am: As plumes of black smoke rose up near a rebel-held village of Grabovo in eastern Ukraine, an Associated Press journalist counted at least 22 bodies at the crash site 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the Russian border.

6.22am: Barack Obama says the US government is trying to establishing whether American citizens on board.

6.15am:  Malaysia Airlines has released an official statement:
"Malaysia Airlines confirms it received notification from Ukrainian ATC that it had lost contact with flight MH17 at 1415 (GMT) at 30km from Tamak waypoint, approximately 50km from the Russia-Ukraine border.

Flight MH17 operated on a Boeing 777 departed Amsterdam at 12.15pm (Amsterdam local time) and was estimated to arrive at Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 6.10 am (Malaysia local time) the next day.

The flight was carrying 280 passengers and 15 crew onboard.
More details to follow."

6.14am: New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs says it is aware of the plane crash and is following up with overseas embassies and Malyasian Airlines to try and ascertain whether there are any New Zealanders on board.

6.11am: Malaysia Airlines tweeted that it lost contact with one of its flights as it was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur over Ukrainian airspace.
BACKGROUND: A Malaysia Airlines plane has crashed in eastern Ukraine.
Malaysia Airlines confirmed that it received notification from Ukrainian aviation authorities that it had lost contact with flight MH17 at 1415 GMT some 30 kilometres from Tamak waypoint, approximately 50km from the Russia-Ukraine border.

It said the plane had 280 passengers and 15 crew aboard a Boeing 777 that left Amsterdam at 12.15pm (local time) and was to arrive at Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 6.10am Friday.

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