The Daily Journalist.
The Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777, that crashed Thursday in eastern Ukraine carrying 295 passengers aboard was shot down by a Ukrainian missile that was aimed at the aircraft of Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a source at the Russian Aviation cited byRussian media.
The source, who requested anonymity, told Interfax that there is the likelihood that the target of the missile launched from land or from a Ukrainian aerospace could have been directed to the Russian presidential plane.
“I can say that the Air Force and Boeing Malaysian Airlines crossed at the same point and in the same corridor. This happened near Warsaw in level flight 330a at an altitude of 10,100 meters. Presidential plane was there at 4.21 pm local time and Malaysia Airlines tickets to 3:44 pm “has specified the source.
“The outline of both aircraft apparently linear in dimensions are also very similar in color and the plane, at a distance large enough, it is also almost identical,” the source added.
Both Channel 1 as the Russian RT TV have echoed this information.
U.S. President Barack Obama was intermediately informed of the accident by his Russian counterpart (Vladimir Putin), who had a telephone conversation, according to the Kremlin said in a statement.
As reported by the Russian radio station Echo of Moscow in Twitter, in the Boeing-777 23 had U.S. citizens traveling. In turn, Putin expressed his deepest condolences to the Malaysian Prime Minister and asked him to convey his deepest sympathy to the families of the victims of the incident.
The Boeing Company 777-Malaysian Airlines, covering the route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, crashed in the eastern Donetsk region, the scene of fighting between government forces and pro-Russian Ukrainian rebels. Around the accident, the Government of Kiev and the pro-Russian rebels accused each other of having shot down the device.
Joe Biden has said late Thursday that what happened with the Malaysian plane carrying 298 people, ‘was no mere accident’, as was already pointed by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, saying: “We do not rule this plane also was hit. ”
U.S. President Barack Obama had declared hours earlier that his priority was to find out if there were U.S. citizens aboard and offered U.S. assistance “to determine what happened and why” in the event.
“As a country, our thoughts and prayers are with all passengers and their families, wherever they are,” concluded the president in a very short speech in which he made no reference to the possible causes of the event.
Obama spoke by phone today with President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, and Prime Minister of Malaysia, Najib Razak, about the incident. The White House phone calls, Obama did from his presidential plane to New York, but only provided details for the first one.
Poroshenko Obama thanked “the assistance of international researchers to ensure a full and transparent investigation of the scene.” “Obama assured (a Poroshenko) U.S. experts will provide all possible assistance immediately,” the White House said in a statement.
