LiveATC Discussion Forums

Aviation => Aviation Accidents/Incidents => Topic started by: jvnanu on July 17, 2014, 11:40:06 AM

Title: Malaysian Airlines 777 down in Eastern Ukraine
Post by: jvnanu on July 17, 2014, 11:40:06 AM
http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/17/world/europe/ukraine-malaysia-airlines-crash/index.html

NY Daily Times reporting it was shot down?

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/malaysian-airlines-plane-crashes-ukraine-russian-border-article-1.1870413
Title: Re: Malaysian Airlines 777 down in Eastern Ukraine
Post by: Chadan on July 17, 2014, 11:48:21 AM
Quote
It was scheduled to fly into Russian airspace at 17:20 Moscow standard time, the agency said.

“However, it fell down 60 kilometres from the border; the plane’s emergency location beacon went off,” a source told the agency.

It is believed all 285 passengers on board have died.
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/07/17/malaysian_passenger_plane_crashes_in_east_ukraine.html
Title: Re: Malaysian Airlines 777 down in Eastern Ukraine
Post by: jvnanu on July 17, 2014, 11:52:44 AM
Just watching CNN. They're saying that US military officials believe that the Ukrainian Military Cargo plane that was shot down on Monday was shot down by a missile originating on the Russian side of the border. Suggesting that perhaps poorly trained Russian military mistook this passenger liner for another military transport.
Title: Re: Malaysian Airlines 777 down in Eastern Ukraine
Post by: hotdog12 on July 17, 2014, 04:21:40 PM
Can someone please find the ATC recordings of MH17 departing EHAM?
Title: Re: Malaysian Airlines 777 down in Eastern Ukraine
Post by: emd2135 on July 17, 2014, 05:19:08 PM
The EHAM tower archive at 1030z catches the MH17 departure clearence.
Title: Re: Malaysian Airlines 777 down in Eastern Ukraine
Post by: stevensmith on July 21, 2014, 01:31:00 PM
Seems incontestable that Russia isn't either directly or indirectly responsible for this. The Ukrainians can no interest at all in firing missiles in these circumstances; even in the doubtless fevered atmosphere in Kiev, no one surely assumed that the separatists commanded large aircraft capable of flying nine miles high.