{"id":19433,"date":"2014-07-18T01:11:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T17:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=19433"},"modified":"2025-01-28T15:22:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T20:22:33","slug":"ukrainian-separatists-govt-both-deny-shooting-down-malaysian-passenger-plane-with-295-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/18\/ukrainian-separatists-govt-both-deny-shooting-down-malaysian-passenger-plane-with-295-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian separatists, govt both deny shooting down Malaysian passenger plane with 295 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19434\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19434\" style=\"width: 701px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/2014-07-18-01_09_53-BREAKING-Malaysian-Airlines-Boing777-Shot-Down-Near-Shakhtersk-Donetsk-oblast-Uk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19434\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/2014-07-18-01_09_53-BREAKING-Malaysian-Airlines-Boing777-Shot-Down-Near-Shakhtersk-Donetsk-oblast-Uk.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot from Euromaidan PR \/ Youtube.\" width=\"701\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/2014-07-18-01_09_53-BREAKING-Malaysian-Airlines-Boing777-Shot-Down-Near-Shakhtersk-Donetsk-oblast-Uk.jpg 701w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/2014-07-18-01_09_53-BREAKING-Malaysian-Airlines-Boing777-Shot-Down-Near-Shakhtersk-Donetsk-oblast-Uk-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19434\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot from Euromaidan PR \/ Youtube.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>KYIV, Ukraine\u2014A Ukrainian official said a passenger plane carrying 295 people was shot down Thursday over a town in eastern Ukraine. Malaysia Airlines tweeted that it lost contact with one of its flights over Ukrainian airspace.<\/p>\n<p>As huge plumes of black smoke rose up near a village in eastern Ukraine, the fate of the passengers aboard the plane wasn&#8217;t immediately known.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy tadalista online <a href=\"https:\/\/neramedprep.org\/scripts\/css\/tadalista.html\">https:\/\/neramedprep.org\/scripts\/css\/tadalista.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Anton Gerashenko, an adviser to Ukraine&#8217;s interior minister, said on his Facebook page the plane was flying at an altitude of 10,000 metres (33,000 feet).<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy lipitor online <a href=\"https:\/\/neramedprep.org\/scripts\/css\/lipitor.html\">https:\/\/neramedprep.org\/scripts\/css\/lipitor.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> He also said it was hit by a missile fired from a Buk launcher, which can fire missiles up to an altitude of 22,000 metres (72,000 feet).<\/p>\n<p>The Donetsk region government said a plane crashed Thursday near a village called Grabovo, which it said is currently under the control of armed pro-Russian separatists. The region where the flight was lost has seen severe fighting between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russia separatist rebels in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>Both the president of Ukraine and a separatist leader denied shooting anything down Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Separatist leader Andrei Purgin told The Associated Press that he was certain that Ukrainian troops had shot it down but gave no explanation for that statement.<\/p>\n<p>Purgin said he was not aware of whether rebel forces owned Buk missile launchers, but even if they did, there had no fighters capable of operating it.<\/p>\n<p><em>AP Airlines Writer Scott Mayerowitz in New York contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy promethazine online <a href=\"https:\/\/neramedprep.org\/scripts\/css\/promethazine.html\">https:\/\/neramedprep.org\/scripts\/css\/promethazine.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV, Ukraine\u2014A Ukrainian official said a passenger plane carrying 295 people was shot down Thursday over a town in eastern &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":19434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-w","mauthors-peter-leonard","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286526,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19433\/revisions\/286526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}