Kuala Lumpur, July 18 – Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak arrives at Malaysian Airlines Operations Center in Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia, early 18 July 2014.
Malaysia Airlines lost contact with Flight MH17 at 5:15 pm (1415 GMT), about 50 kilometres from the Russia-Ukraine border, the airline said in a statement.
The Boeing 777 departed Amsterdam at 12:15 pm and was scheduled to arrive in Kuala Lumpur at 6:10 am 18 July. The plane was carrying 280 passengers and 15 crew members, the statement said.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak (C) accompanied by Malaysian Defence Minister Hishamuddin Hussein (2-L), Malaysian Foreign Minister Anifah Aman (2-R), Malaysian Airlines chairman Md Nor Yusof (L) and Minister at Prime Minster Department, Wee Ka Siong (R) during a press conference held early morning today at a hotel near Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang outside Kuala Lumpur.
A Malaysia Airlines plane with 295 people on board crashed in eastern Ukraine, and both the government and separatist rebels fighting in the area denied shooting it down.
All passengers on board Flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur are feared dead.
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