Malaysia Airlines Plane With 295 Aboard Crashes in Ukraine
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 17th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Malaysia Airlines Plane With 295 Aboard Crashes in Ukraine
The plane crashed in eastern Ukraine near the Russian border, and Ukrainian officials said a Russian-made antiaircraft system may have shot it down.
Earlier Downing of Transport Plane Over Ukraine Foreshadowed Tragedy
Three days before the downing of a Malaysian civilian airliner, a Ukrainian transport plane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile while flying at 21,000 feet.
From Gaza, an Array of Makeshift Rockets Packs a Counterpunch
Though the crude rockets smuggled from Iran, Libya, Sudan and Syria rarely hit high-value targets, they are reaching farther into Israel than ever before.