Malaysian Airlines hit global headlines once again as its flight MH17 en route to Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam has reportedly crashed near the Ukrainian-Russian border on Thursday, July 17, 2014.

Flight MH17 was carrying 280 passengers and 15 crew members when it lost contact from Malaysia Airlines headquarters in Amsterdam where it took off and that the plane’s last known position was over Ukrainian airspace. The official twitter account of Malaysia Airlines posted the following:

Malaysia Airlines has lost contact of MH17 from Amsterdam. The last known position was over Ukrainian airspace. More details to follow.

— Malaysia Airlines (@MAS) July 17, 2014

According to reports, MH17 was shot down by a ground-to-air missile. An adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister posted on Facebook that an antiaircraft missile system shot down MH17 over the village of Torez, about “25 miles east of the city of Donetsk and within territory held by pro-Russian separatist rebels.”

Malaysia Airlines is expected to release an official statement regarding this incident in a few minutes.

Here is the latest photo of the crash site as tweeted by Reuters:

The site of a Malaysia Airlines plane crash in the settlement of Grabovo in Donetsk region: http://t.co/yVWeqntSaK pic.twitter.com/guBJ5ppeRy

— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) July 17, 2014

Top image courtesy of www.thedrum.com