{"id":32680,"date":"2014-07-17T16:07:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T16:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=32680"},"modified":"2014-07-17T18:02:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T18:02:23","slug":"malaysia-airliner-crashes-in-east-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=32680","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia airliner crashes in east Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Malaysian airliner reportedly with 295 people on board has crashed in Ukraine near the Russian border, on a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia Airlines said it had lost contact with Flight MH17 from Amsterdam. The last known position was over Ukraine, it said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>An aviation source in Moscow told Reuters the plane had been found burning on the ground in east Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/76336959_023191772-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32699\" alt=\"_76336959_023191772-1\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/76336959_023191772-1.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/76336959_023191772-1.jpg 624w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/76336959_023191772-1-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a>It had failed to enter Russian airspace, the source said.<\/p>\n<p>Anton Herashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine&#8217;s interior minister, was quoted by the Associated Press as saying the plane had been hit by a missile at an altitude of 10,000m (33,000ft).<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The UK Foreign Office said it was aware of the reports of the crash and was &#8220;urgently working to establish what has happened&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Malaysian airliner reportedly with 295 people on board has crashed in Ukraine near the Russian border, on a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia Airlines said it had lost contact with Flight MH17 from Amsterdam. The last known position was over Ukraine, it said in a tweet. An aviation source in Moscow told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":32698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1722,14,1028],"class_list":["post-32680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-fa-cup-final","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah","tag-the-independent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}