A Boeing 777 of Malaysia Airlines (Malaysia Airlines), in transit from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, crashed on Thursday in the Ukrainian region of Donetsk, in the area of armed conflict between the central authorities in Kiev and independence insurgents pro-Russian. In the apparatus traveled 298 people, 283 passengers (including many children) and 15 crew members. They all perished in the incident. Of these, 189 are Dutch, 44 Malaysians (including 15 crew and two babies), 27 Australians, 12 Indonesians (including another baby), 9 British, four German four Belgians, three Filipinos, a Canadian, a New Zealander and four without nationality verified, according to the latest data from the company, reports Isabel Ferrer. Rescuers at the scene have recovered 181 bodies, as announced in a press conference a spokesman of the Ukrainian Foreign. Two black boxes have been found. 
The Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko not hesitate to describe the incident as a "terrorist act", while his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, attributed responsibility to Kiev for resuming the offensive in the East. The Security Council of the UN met on Friday to request an emergency "independent international investigation" of the incident in addition to ask the parties involved to allow access to the area for researchers, Sandro Pozzi reports from New York. Samantha Power, the American ambassador to the UN, said at the meeting that the aircraft was probably shot down by a surface-to-air missile operated from a position "pro-Russian separatist-dominated." In addition, Power stated that the attack on the plane "is a characteristic pattern of actions of the separatists backed by Russia".
The Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday denied involvement of his country in the demolition. On Friday, Russian President insisted that the incident demonstrates the need to be reached as soon as possible a peaceful settlement of the conflict in eastern Ukraine, according to the Kremlin. Putin has also stressed that the accident requires a "careful and objective" investigation.
The OSCE reported that a group of specialists heads on Friday to the scene
"We owe it to the families of the dead to discover what exactly happened and who is responsible," he emphasized the Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, for whom Russia's initial response to the incident, in which at least have died 27 Australians, has been "deeply unsatisfactory" by simply blame for what happened Ukraine, France Press reports. Meanwhile, British Prime Minister David Cameron has called for today an interministerial crisis cabinet to discuss the situation, Downing Street announced in a statement.
A group of 30 experts from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has arrived on the evening of Friday to the area where the plane crashed, according to Reuters. The pro-Russian rebels who control the area hours before the guaranteed safety of observers and international researchers. The OSCE has also announced it will hold a special meeting Friday to discuss the incident.
The victims, in addition, there is a large group of passengers-until a hundred, according to Interfax Media- their way to the international AIDS conference which is scheduled to begin Sunday in the Australian city of Melbourne. One of the dead is Dutch Joep Lange, one of the most recognized in the world of AIDS experts.
The intelligence agencies of the United States concluded that the plane was shot down by a surface to air missile, but have not yet managed to find out who launched Silvia Ayuso reports from Washington. A security source told CNN that radar had recorded how a system of ground-based missile was tracking an airplane just before the Boeing crashed. "This is a disputed area, will take time to gain information about the intentions of who was involved," said another source told The Washington Post.
Vice President Joe Biden made it clear that the American government does not believe that the incident may have been due to an accident. The plane "was apparently shot down, was not an accident," the government number two from Detroit. Biden spoke shortly before the president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, which reiterated the offer of help made by Barack Obama to work on whatever it takes to find out "what happened and why."
Buk missile
The Boeing flew to 10,600 feet high and was 60 kilometers from the Russian border when it crashed and fell wrapped in a thick and huge cloud of black smoke in a field near the town of Shajtersk, 80 km from Donetsk . Around the wreckage, were scattered mutilated remains of passengers and their belongings. The accident area is controlled by the insurgents in the self-proclaimed People's Republic of Donetsk (RPD) territory. The authorities in Kiev and Donetsk independence immediately exchanged accusations of shooting down the device.
Anton Gerashchenko, advisor to the minister of the Interior of Ukraine in Kiev on Thursday said that the plane was shot down by insurgents using a Buk missile system. Gerashchenko television channel said that his department had Dozhd dozens of witnesses the launch of a missile near Snezhnoe (in the separatist-controlled area). Gerashchenko also accused Russia of having delivered systems Buk DPR. The rebels tried to take this type launchers near Lugansk one month ago, but only caught faulty equipment, the Russia 24 channel reported.
Representatives of the RPD declared this chain lacking warlike means to shoot down a plane flying height in the stricken Boeing. Alexandr Borodái, Russian citizen who heads the Government of the DPR, said its portable launchers could achieve "maximum between 3,000 and 4,000 meters," and accused the Air Force of Ukraine of the event, calling it "a deliberate provocation." Borodái said he was willing to give the black box apparatus international experts, while Andrei Purgin Parliament President DPR said they want to send to Moscow, one of the fears of Kiev. So Obama and Poroshenko your phone conversation agreed that the evidence of the accident should remain in Ukraine for research. The separatists say they have declared a "humanitarian" ceasefire in the area to facilitate it.
The information on missile systems held by the separatists are confusing. The Russian news agency Itar-Tass said from Lugansk the insurgents had no Buk systems, but in June had reported that the Separatists had gained control of one of those units. The information of the experts interviewed by Russian Buk channels over whether Boeing could have achieved were not sufficiently clear. In 2001 the Ukrainian aviation knocked on the Black Sea a civil aircraft of the Russian company Sibir going from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk with 66 people on board. The event, with no survivors, was due to a miscalculation by firing a missile from a S-200 system.
The incident on Thursday has been preceded by several aircraft kills. The spokesman for the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine, Andriy Lysenko, on Thursday accused Russia of shooting down a military aircraft His Ukrainian Wednesday night. The pilot of the device was made safe thanks to the parachute ejection. The Ukrainian authorities claimed the downed aircraft missiles that were fired from the territory of Russia. "It is possible that the shot will be made by means of air-to-air Russian air forces were patrolling the border missile," a Defense Ministry spokesman.
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