Malaysian Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein. AP
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysia Airlines said late Thursday it lost contact with a plane over Ukrainian airspace.
MH17 was heading from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on Thursday.
A Ukrainian government adviser Anton Gerashenko said on Facebook that a plane carrying 295 people was shot down over a town in the east of the country.
The airline said on Twitter that more details were coming.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared in March while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. It has not been found, but the search has been concentrated in the Indian Ocean far west of Australia.
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