Malaysia Airlines

Sorin Frunzaverde, current president of the Caras-Severin County Council and former Minister of National Defence, declared on Friday for AGERPRES that neither Russia, nor Ukraine had an interest in downing the Malaysia Airlines passenger plane.

Two of the passengers killed in the airplane crash occurred on Thursday in eastern Ukraine, close to the border with Russia, were students of the Cluj Napoca University of Medicine and Pharmacy (UMF).

The two were students in the second year of the UMF Cluj-Napoca Faculty of Medicine, at the English language study program.

Rescue workers, policemen and even off-duty coal miners are combing the sprawling crash site in eastern Ukraine, reports AP. 

They are looking for the bodies of the 298 people who were on board of the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 which crashed, reportedly hit by a ground-to-air missile Buk.

The Malaysian airliner apparently shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine was flying over airspace that a number of other Asian carriers had already abandoned months ago because of security concerns.
      

World in shock as Malaysian plane crashes over Ukraine

KIEV -- None of the 298 passengers and crew of a Malaysian passenger plane that crashed in eastern Ukraine survived, and the world is in shock over the tragedy.

The Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) informs there has been no confirmation so far of Romanian citizens on board of the Boeing 777 aircraft crashed in eastern Ukraine on Thursday.

President Traian Basescu asks for immediate investigations of the circumstances of the airliner downed in Ukraine and demands the participation of EU experts in the inquiry, a release of the Presidential Administration informed.

A Malaysia Airlines jet with 295 people on board crashed Thursday in the hostile eastern region of Ukraine, near the Russian border, reports NBC news. 

According to reports, all 280 passengers and 15 crew are dead.

Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko said he could not rule out that the passenger plane had been shot down. 

Malaysian airliner carrying 298 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed on July 17 in rebel-held east Ukraine, as Kiev said the jet was shot down in a "terrorist" attack.

A Malaysian airliner was shot down over eastern Ukraine by militants on July 17, killing all 295 people aboard, a Ukrainian interior ministry official was quoted as saying by Interfax-Ukraine news agency.