Malaysian plane found on fire in eastern Ukraine

Reuters reporters arrived at the scene on July 17 and confirmed seeing the wreckage of the plane and many bodies.

Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash site. Photo: Reuters

Meanwhile, an AFP reporter at the scene said dozens of seriously injured bodies could be clearly seen among the wreckage of the crashed plane.

Debris from the plane was scattered over several kilometers and the tail of the plane bearing the Malaysia Airlines logo was found in a cornfield.

Several fire engines were also seen near the accident site.

Ukrainian Interior Ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko said separatist forces shot down Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 carrying 280 passengers and 15 crew members with a Buk missile system.

On the social networking site Facebook, the official also confirmed that all 295 people on board the plane were killed.

Ukrainian separatist leader Aleksander Borodai accused Kiev government forces of shooting down Malaysian passenger plane MH17 in the east of the country.

"It looks like it was indeed a passenger plane shot down by the Ukrainian Air Force," Borodai told Russian state television channel Rossiya 24.

Bernama news agency reported that Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was shocked by the news of the Malaysia Airlines plane crash and is opening an immediate investigation into the report.

Malaysia Airlines confirmed that the Boeing 777 aircraft carrying 280 passengers and 15 crew members was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.

The airline said air traffic control lost contact with MH17 at 14:15 GMT about 50km from the Russia-Ukraine border.

According to Malaysian Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein, the country has not yet confirmed that flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down. Malaysian authorities are still investigating.

Earlier, a spokesman for Malaysia Airlines (MAS) said that it could not confirm the information from an international news agency and was still verifying.

Ukrainian intelligence reveals mysterious phone call about Malaysian plane crash

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has released phone calls it recorded with different tones about the downing of the Malaysian Boeing MH17.

Flight plan of MH17 before it was shot down in Ukraine. Source: AP

During a phone call, a person informed that the plane shot down in Eastern Ukraine was a civilian plane. At 16:33 local time (20:33 Hanoi time), a gunman named “Major” informed another gunman named “Grek” about the plane being shot down.

"It was (Cossack fighters in) Chernukhino that shot down the plane... The plane broke into pieces in the air, in the area of ​​the Petropavlovsky mine. The first dead person has been found, a woman. Civilian," he said.

Then, at 5:42 p.m., the gunman confirmed that the downed plane was a civilian. "In short, it was a civilian plane," he said when asked what he found on the plane.

According to the voice of the "Major", at the crash site, documents of an Indonesian student studying at Thompson University were found.

According to Vietnam+