Official: 181 Bodies Found At Malaysian Plane Site

People walk amongst the debris, at the crash site of a passenger plane near the village of Grabovo, Ukraine, Thursday, July 17, 2014. A Ukrainian official said a passenger plane carrying 295 people was shot down Thu... People walk amongst the debris, at the crash site of a passenger plane near the village of Grabovo, Ukraine, Thursday, July 17, 2014. A Ukrainian official said a passenger plane carrying 295 people was shot down Thursday as it flew over the country and plumes of black smoke rose up near a rebel-held village in eastern Ukraine. Malaysia Airlines tweeted that it lost contact with one of its flights as it was traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur over Ukrainian airspace. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky) MORE LESS
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KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian official says 181 bodies have been located so far at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine.

Ukraine Foreign Ministry representative Andriy Sybiga cited local emergency workers at the site for the numbers Friday. He said the bodies will be taken to Kharkiv, a government-controlled city 270 kilometers (170 miles) north of the crash site, for identification.

Authorities say 298 people were killed when the plane traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down Thursday.

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  1. One assumes that Putin, who is legally culpable for providing these weapons, is going to be the target of punitive lawsuits. The lawyers have a target with very deep pockets indeed.

  2. The difference between the maniacs who downed this plane and the manics who shoot first graders in Connecticut is what, exactly?

    We live with this same shit here, in the US, every month.

  3. What no one is saying is that Russian special forces and army personnel are fighting with the pro Russian rebels. It takes training to use a sophisticated surface to air system with the capabilities to shoot down high flying aircraft. Being as the plane had filed a flight path with the Ukrainian government, I doubt they would fire on it. Besides, why would they? The rebels do fly their troops in planes. It is likely a Russian soldier highly trained with the mobile Buk missile launcher brought the plane down.

  4. It isn’t clear that they deliberately shot down an airliner. Likely they mistook it for a Ukrainian military cargo plane. The Soviets shot down a Korean airliner and the US shot down an Iranian airliner, both by mistake. That doesn’t in any way absolve Putin of responsibility, but it isn’t the same as a deliberate school shooting.

    I think it was reckless to route commercial flights over an active war zone, but apparently the Malaysians weren’t the only ones doing so,

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