MAYLASIA AIRLINES KEEPS GETTING THE SHORT END OF THE STICK AS ITS AIRLINE GETS SHUTDOWN BY THE PRO RUSSIAN IN UKRAINE SUPPORTED BY THE PUTIN OF RUSSIA–BOEING 777-200 SHOT DOWN BY AIR TO AIR MISSILE–283 LOST SOULS 28 OF WHICH ARE AUSTRALIAN CITIZENS, 154 DUTCH, 43 MALAYSIANS, 12 INDONESIANS –MALAYSIA LOST AN AIRLINE EARLY THIS YEAR OVER THE INDIAN OCEAN

Pro-Russia rebels, meanwhile, claimed responsibility for strikes Wednesday on two Ukrainian Sukhoi-25 jets. The Ukrainian Defense Ministry said the second jet was hit by a portable surface-to-air missile, but added the pilot was unscathed and managed to land his plane safely

Moscow denies Western charges that is supporting the separatists or sowing unrest in its neighbor. The Russian Defense Ministry couldn't be reached for comment Thursday about the Ukrainian jet and Russia's foreign ministry didn't respond to multiple requests for comment.
Earlier this week, Ukraine said a military transport plane was shot down Monday by a missile fired from Russian territory.

The Malaysia Airlines plane is a Boeing 777-200ER, which was delivered to Malaysia Airlines on July 30, 1997, according to Flightglobal's Ascend Online Fleets, which sells and tracks information about aircraft. It has more than 43,000 hours of flight time and 6,950 takeoffs and landings.
If the plane was shot down, it would be the fourth commercial airliner to face such a fate. The previous three were:

_ 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.
_ Sept. 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.

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Scores of mutilated corpses and body parts were strewn around the smouldering wreckage in the village of Grabove, near the Russian border.
Shocked residents of the village said the crash felt “like an earthquake.”

Malaysia Airlines said 283 passengers and 15 crew were aboard the plane ― including 154 Dutch nationals, 43 Malaysians, 28 Australians and 12 Indonesians.
As many as 100 of those killed were delegates heading to Australia for a global AIDS conference, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the crash was “not an accident, but a crime” and blasted Russia’s response to the downing of the jet as “deeply unsatisfactory.”

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