Pesawat MH17 bawa 295 penumpang dan anak kapal terhempas di Ukraine

 

11:00PM Jul 17 LANGSUNG Malaysia Airlines mengesahkan pasukannya terputus hubungan dengan pesawat MH17 yang membawa 295 penumpang dan anak kapal.

Laporan Awal ditembak peluru berpandu jarak dekat

Laporan awal agensi luar negara mendakwa pesawat dengan nombor penerbangan MH17 membawa 295 penumpang dan anak kapal, ditembak jatuh dengan peluru berpandu.

Interfax melaporkan pesawat itu jatuh hanya 50 km selepas memasuki ruang udara Rusia.

Bagaimanapun, Menteri Pertahanan Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein berkata dakwaan bahawa pesawat itu ditembak jatuh masih belum disahkan.

"Tiada pengesahan bawah ia ditembak jatuh. Tentera kita sudah diarahkan untuk menanganinya," katanya di Twitter.

Pesawat Malaysia Bawa 295 Penumpang Ditembak Jatuh Di Ukraine

Pesawat M'sia dilapor terhempas dekat sempadan Ukraine-Rusia

Sebuah pesawat dari Malaysia dilaporkan terhempas di Ukraine dekat sempadan Rusia, lapor agensi berita lewat malam ini.

Malaysia Airlines mengesahkan pasukannya terputus hubungan dengan pesawat MH17.

"Kedudukan terakhir adalah di ruang udara Ukraine," kenyataan MAS di Twitter dipetik.

Sementara itu, laporan Reuters yang memetik laporan agensi berita Interfax menyebut, pesawat itu membawa 295 penumpang dari Amsterdam ke Kuala Lumpur.

Laporan Interfax itu memetik sumber industri penerbangan, yang masih belum dapat disahkan buat masa ini.

Sementara itu, laporan Al-Jazeera menyebut, Malaysia Airlines mengesahkan kejadian itu dan dijangka akan mengeluarkan satu kenyataan tidak lama lagi.

Menurut Al-Jazeera, pesawat terlibat dipercayai pesawat Boeing 777 dengan nombor penerbangan MH17, yang berlepas dari Amsterdam pada jam 2.14 pagi waktu tempatan.

Ia dijangka tiba di Kuala Lumpur pada kira-kira jam 6 pagi.

Laporan itu juga menyebut, ia mungkin terhempas di kawasan yang menyaksikan pertempuran sengit antara Rusia dan Ukraine.

Menurut Interfax, pesawat itu terhempas hanya 50 km selepas memasuki ruang udara Rusia.

Laporan yang memetik sumber keselamatan Ukraine yang tidak dinamakan itu menyebut, pesawat itu hilang dari radar ketika berada di ketinggian 10,000 meter.

Ia disyaki terhempas dekat bandar Shakhtyorsk. -mk

Ukrainian prime minister identifies shot-down plane as missing Malaysian Airlines flight; says launching investigation
Malaysia Airlines confirmed that it has lost contact of MH17 from Amsterdam on Thursday. The last known position was over Ukrainian airspace.

Separately, an advisor to the Ukraine interior minister told AP that a plane had been shot down in Ukraine. A YouTube video purported to show footage from moments after the plane went down.

The Ukrainian prime minister has ordered an investigation into the "airplane catastrophe," Reuters reported.

Boeing declined to comment at this time on reports of the missing Malaysia Airlines MH17.

An aviation source told Reuters that a Malaysian airplane failed to enter Russian airspace when expected on Thursday and was found burning on the ground in eastern Ukraine.

Following the report, U.S. stocks fell after news broke that the plane had crashed in Ukraine.

The White House said it was aware of reports and monitoring the situation in the Ukraine.

—CNBC.com with Reuters -cnbc - http://greenboc.blogspot.com/

Pesawat MH17 dilaporkan ditembak jatuh, dunia menunggu maklumat rasmi

18/07/2014 12:43am

AMSTERDAM - Situasi pesawat penumpang Penerbangan Malaysia (MAS) yang membawa sejumlah 295 penumpang dari Amsterdam ke Kuala Lumpur dilaporkan terhempas berhampiran sempadan Ukraine, Rusia mula membanjiri laman media sedunia sebentar tadi.

Pihak MAS dalam laman Twitter mengatakan bahawa pesawat MH17 dari Amsterdam gagal dihubungi dan lokasi terakhir dikesan adalah berdekatan Ukraine.

Sumber penerbangan dari Moscow memberitahu kepada Reuters bahawa pesawat tersebut kelihatan sedang terbakar telah terhempas di bahagian timur Ukraine.

Sumber berkenaan turut melaporkan pesawat tersebut gagal memasuki ruang udara Rusia.

Laman web BBC turut menunjukkan kawasan pesawat tersebut terhempas iaitu di barat bandar Krasni Luch.

Menurut Penasihat Kementerian Dalam Negeri Ukraine, Anton Herashchenko yang juga dipetik daripada AP menyatakan bahawa pesawat tersebut telah ditembak oleh peluru berpandu pada kedudukan ketinggian 10,000 meter (33,000 kaki).

Walau bagaimanapun, pengesahan mengenainya belum dapat disahkan secara rasmi.

Sejak kebelakangan ini, beberapa pesawat tentera telah ditembak oleh kumpulan peluru berpandu ini di bahagian timur Ukraine di mana pemberontak pemisah pro-Rusia telah berjuang memerangi tentera kerajaan.

Pejabat Luar United Kingdom (UK) berkata, pihaknya sedar mengenai laporan kemalangan itu dan "segera berusaha untuk mengesahkan apa yang telah berlaku".- METRO.

Pesawat penumpang Malaysia dilaporkan terhempas di Ukraine dekat sempadan Rusia - Interfax

17/07/2014 11:45pm

MOSCOW - Sebuah pesawat penumpang Malaysia yang membawakan seramai 295 orang terhempas di Ukraine berdekatan sempadan Rusia, lapor Interfax yang memetik sumber daripada industri penerbangan hari ini.

Dikatakan pesawat jenis Boeing itu dalam perjalanan dari Amsterdam menuju ke Kuala Lumpur. Reuters bagaimanapun tidak dapat mengesahkan laporan Interfax itu buat masa ini.

Menurut Twitter Penerbangan Malaysia (MAS) sebentar tadi, pesawat MH17 Boeing 777 dari Amsterdam gagal dihubungi. Kedudukan terakhir yang dikesan adalah di ruang udara Ukraine. - Reuters.

1. 
   

   Reporters: Sean Clare, Amber Dawson, Sarah Fowler and Jastinder Khera
2. 17:57: 
   "The portable air defence systems which we have, they work at a maximum of three to four thousand metres. Therefore, it is possible to say virtually before the start of the investigation that the Ukrainian armed forces destroyed this," separatist spokesman Sergey Kavtaradze says.
3. 17:57: 
   A spokesman for pro-Russian separatists in the Donetsk region told Russia's Rossiya TV that they were not capable of bringing down a commercial airliner flying at 10,000 metres.
4. 17:56: 
   Reuters has this photograph of a Ukrainian emergencies ministry worker at the crash site:

   
5. 
   

   Reuters news agency 
   tweets: The site of a Malaysia Airlines plane crash in the settlement of Grabovo in Donetsk region: http://bit.ly/1eP5C4X
6. 17:53: 
   Malaysia's Defence Minister Hishamuddin Hussein, who dealt with the disappearance of MH370 in March in his capacity as acting transport minister, has appealed for calm on Twitter, saying he is working with the foreign, transport and prime minister on the issue - via BBC Monitoring
7. 17:52: 
   A statement from Virgin Airlines says it "will be re-routing a small number of our flights this evening". It says it is closely monitoring the situation.
8. 17:51: 
   Former UK ambassador to Russia Sir Tony Brenton tells the BBC if the plane has been shot down it has "quite profound political implications". He says sanctions and "world condemnation" of the pro-Russia rebels could follow if it turns out they have shot down the plane.
9. 17:50: 
   Malaysia Airlines has released a statement saying it received notification from Ukrainian air traffic control that it had lost contact with flight MH17 at 1415 GMT at 30km from Tamak waypoint, approximately 50km (31 miles) from the Russia-Ukraine border.
10. 17:46: 
    AFP quotes the Kremlin as saying that Mr Putin "informed [President Obama] about an air-traffic controllers' report that came just before their phone conversation that a Malaysian plane crashed in Ukraine".

    
11. 17:45: 
    US President Barack Obama has spoken via telephone to Russian President Vladimir Putin about the airplane crash, Reuters reports. The call had already been pre-planned on the situation in Ukraine, it adds.
12. 17:43: 
    Novorossiya, one of several major pro-Russia separatist accounts on Twitter, says in a tweet (in Russian) that the Ukrainian air force brought down the Malaysia Airlines aircraft, our colleagues at BBC Monitoring report.
13. 
    

    Mike Boxall in Cambridge, UK 
    emails: Why have international airlines continued to fly across this area of eastern Ukraine during this time of conflict? We have been reading reports of the increasing loss of military aircraft in this area, surely the airlines have a standard of customer care which should preclude overflying areas of conflict?
14. 
    

    Air transport editor for Flight International, David Kaminski 
    tweets: Point of loss of #MH17 appears to coincide with airspace boundary between Kiev and Dnipropetrovsk flight information regions.
15. 17:38: 
    If it was a missile that brought the aircraft down, it would have to be a long range one as opposed to a portable system, aviation analyst Chris Yates tells BBC Radio 4's PM programme.
16. 17:34: 
    A map of the reported crash site in eastern Ukraine:

    
17. 17:33: 
    According to a Reuters reporter at the scene, broken pieces of wing marked with Malaysia Airlines' red and blue - similar to those pictured below - have been seen among the wreckage.

    
18. 17:32: 
    The BBC's Oleg Boldyrev in Moscow says the rebels do not have out-dated equipment. What they have equals or maybe surpasses the Ukrainian government's capabilities. He says some reports say the rebels even have fighter planes reportedly flown from Crimea and that possibility should not be excluded.
19. 17:31: 
    Russian news agency RIA Novosti is also reporting that scores of bodies in Donetsk Region have been found strewn on the ground next to the plane wreckage.
20. 
    

    Reuters News Agency 
    tweets: #BREAKING: Eastern Ukraine separatist leader Alexander Borodai says airliner shot down by Ukrainian gov. forces, Kiev denied involvement
21. 17:30: 
    The Malaysia Airlines plane could have been shot down, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says in a statement. "This is a third such tragic event in recent days, when Ukrainian military An-26 and Su-25 aircraft have been shot down from Russian territory, " the statement says. "The Ukrainian armed forces did not attempt to shoot down targets in the air."
22. 
    

    Flight tracking site Flightradar24
    tweets: Last positions of #MH17 directly from Flightradar24 database. Signal was lost around 13:21 UTC at 33,000 feet.

    
23. 17:28: 
    According to Reuters, there are dozens of bodies scattered around the wreckage of the jet. The agency quotes an emergencies services rescue worker as saying at least 100 bodies had so far been found at the scene, and that debris from the wreckage was scattered across an area up to about 15 km (nine miles) in diameter.
24. 17:26: 
    Pro-Russia separatists in Donetsk have denied bringing down the aircraft, according to Interfax. "The plane was shot down by the Ukrainian side. We simply have no air defence systems of this kind," separatist spokesman Sergey Kavtaradze told the agency.
25. 17:20: 
    Sources says the aircraft was a Boeing 777, similar to this one photographed earlier this year:

    
26. 
    

    Jonathan Beale Defence correspondent, BBC News 
    The only other possibility is for an aircraft at that height to be downed by a fighter carrying air-to-air missiles. The US will have access to satellite imagery that should be able to identify ultra-violet plumes if a long-range surface-to-air missile was fired.
27. 
    

    Jonathan Beale Defence correspondent, BBC News 
    A defence expert has told the BBC that shooting down a plane at 10,000 metres (9.7 miles) would have required a long-range surface-to-air missile - possibly guided by radar. That suggests it is unlikely it could have been downed by a portable air defence missile, or Manpad, which has a much shorter range.
28. 17:15: 
    Interfax news agency quotes the Ukrainian presidential press service as saying that the Ukrainian armed forces were not involved in the Malaysian passenger plane "being brought down".
29. 17:14: 
    A Reuters reporter has reached the scene and has described seeing burning wreckage of the airplane, with bodies on the ground, the agency reports.
30. 
    

    Mohd Najib Tun Razak, Malaysian prime minister 
    tweets: I am shocked by reports that an MH plane crashed. We are launching an immediate investigation.
31. 17:09: 
    A number of military planes have been shot down by missiles in recent weeks over eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian separatist rebels have been fighting government forces.
32. 17:08: 
    BBC correspondent Oleg Boldyrev in Moscow says unconfirmed reports suggest people have seen wreckage on the ground. He adds that any investigation into what could have happened would be a "nightmare" for the authorities, given the tensions in the area.
33. 17:07: 
    US stocks have fallen sharply amid reports of the latest Malaysia Airlines flight incident, according to AFP.
34. 
    

    Zeke Miller, Political reporter at Time Magazine 
    tweets: WH: Obama has been briefed on reports of the plane
35. 17:06: 
    If the deaths on board this flight are confirmed, it would be the second tragedy to strike Malaysia Airlines this year after the disappearance of Flight MH370 in March with 227 passengers and 12 members of crew on board - one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time.
36. 17:05: 
    The Ukrainian prime minister has reportedly launched an investigation into what he calls the "airplane catastrophe", according to Reuters.
37. 17:02: 
    The Interfax-Ukraine news agency has quoted a Ukrainian Interior Ministry as saying he believes all 295 passengers on board have been killed.
38. 16:59: 
    This map shows where contact was apparently lost with flight MH17 between Amsterdam and Kuala Lumpur:

    
39. 16:54: 
    The UK Foreign Office says it is aware of the reports and is "urgently working to establish what has happened".
40. 
    

    Boeing Airplanes 
    tweets: We are aware of reports on MH17. We're gathering more information.
41. 16:50: 
    The Associated Press says one of its journalists saw a similar launcher near the eastern Ukrainian town of Snizhe earlier on Thursday.
42. 16:50: 
    An advisor to the Ukrainian interior minister, Anton Gerashenko, says the plane was flying at an altitude of 10,000 metres (33,000 feet) when it was "hit by a missile fired from a Buk launcher", in a post on his Facebook page, according to the Associated Press.
43. 16:42: 
    Aviation expert Chris Yates says the plane would have been full, if reports that it was carrying 295 passengers are correct. He says the plane would have been flying at a height of some six miles (9.7km).
44. 16:39:BREAKING NEWS 
    Malaysia Airlines tweets it has lost contact with flight MH17 from Amsterdam. "The last known position was over Ukrainian airspace," it says. "More details to follow."
45. 16:36: 
    The BBC's Daniel Sandford in Moscow says that the area in which the plane is reported to have come down is right in the centre of the area controlled by anti-Kiev rebels - although of course details are still coming in.
46. 16:36: 
    Again according to the Interfax agency only, Anton Herashchenko an adviser to the Ukrainian deputy interior minister has apparently confirmed the crash.
47. 16:34: 
    The Interfax news agency reported 295 people - 280 passengers and 15 crew members - were on board the flight, en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
48. 16:31: 
    The Boeing 777 plane was flying in an international air corridor over eastern Ukraine when it crashed, the Russian news agency reported.
49. 16:27: 
    The crash has reportedly happened on the Ukrainian side of the Russia - Ukraine border, scene of tension between the two countries.
50. 16:24: 
    Reports suggest a passenger plane has crashed in eastern Ukraine. The early reports come from an "aviation source" who was quoted by the privately-owned Russian Interfax news agency.
    
    

Perdana Menteri terkejut dengan laporan berita

Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak dalam tulisan di Twitter menyatakan rasa terkejut dengan perkembangan itu.

"Saya terkejut dengan laporan bahawa pesawat MH terhempas. Kita sedang melancarkan siasatan serta merta," katanya di Twitter.

Sementara itu, Menteri Pertahanan Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein berkata dakwaan bahawa pesawat itu ditembak jatuh masih belum disahkan.

"Tiada pengesahan bawah ia ditembak jatuh. Tentera kita sudah diarahkan untuk menanganinya," katanya di Twitter.

Sementara itu, laporan Reuters yang memetik laporan agensi berita Interfax menyebut, pesawat itu membawa 295 penumpang dan anak kapal dari Amsterdam ke Kuala Lumpur.

Menurut Reuters yang memetik kenyataan sumber penerbangan di Moscow menyebut, pesawat itu ditemui terbakar di permukaan tanah di timur Ukraine.

Laporan Interfax itu memetik sumber industri penerbangan, yang masih belum dapat disahkan buat masa ini.

Pesawat itu berlepas dari Amsterdam pada jam 2.14 pagi waktu tempatan dan dijangka tiba di Kuala Lumpur pada kira-kira jam 6 pagi.

Sementara itu, laporan Al-Jazeera menyebut, pesawat itu mungkin terhempas di kawasan yang menyaksikan pertempuran sengit antara Rusia dan Ukraine.

Menurut Interfax, pesawat itu terhempas hanya 50 km selepas memasuki ruang udara Rusia.

Laporan yang memetik sumber keselamatan Ukraine yang tidak dinamakan itu menyebut, pesawat itu hilang dari radar ketika berada di ketinggian 10,000 meter.

Berikut adalah perkembangan terbaru sejak jam 12.01 pagi, Jumaat 18 Julai.

1am: Laporan Reuters menyebut, puluhan mayat bergelimpangan di sekitar bangkai pesawat di sebuah padang di timur Ukraine.

Pasukan penyelamat menemui sekurang-kurangnya 100 mayat ditemui dengan kawasan kampung Grabovo.

Serpihan pesawat itu dikesan dalam lingkungan diameter 15 kilometer.
12.31am: Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak dalam tulisan di Twitter menyatakan rasa terkejut dengan perkembangan itu.

"Saya terkejut dengan laporan bahawa pesawat MH terhempas. Kita sedang melancarkan siasatan serta merta," katanya di Twitter.

12.28am: Koresponden Reuters di timur Ukraine melaporkan menyaksikan bangkai pesawat terbakar dan badan manusia di kawasan bencana.

Sementara itu, Datuk Seri Najib Razak dilaporkan akan tiba tidak lama lagi di pusat operasi Malaysia Airlines yang dibuka di Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur.

12.24am: Presiden Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko menafikan tenteranya menembak jatuh pesawat Malaysia, lapor DPA.

12.15: Laporan Reuters memetik kenyataan penasihat kerajaan Ukraine yang berkata pesawat Malaysia itu ditembak jatuk oleh militan di timur Ukraine, mengorbankan kesemua 295 orang dalam penerbangan tersebut.

Ia menyebut, pesawat itu jatuh dekat bandar Donetsk, yang menjadi kubu kuat pemisah pro-Rusia.

Menteri tersebut, Anton Gerashchenko dilaporkan berkata, pesawat itu terkena tembakan peluru berpandu dari permukaan darat.

Laporan itu mendakwa, penduduk tempatan telah menemui bangkai pesawat. -malaysiakini-
ABU: 2014 Tahun malang untuk MAS dan Malaysia.