The government has declared 22nd August 2014 as the National day of mourning in memory of the victims of the ill fated Malaysian Airlines MH17 that was shot down in Ukraine on 17th July 2014. Remains of 16 victims that had been identified will be flown back to KLIA,s Bunga raya lounge for a ceremonial reception.
Early analysis by German experts show that MH17 pilot was shot not from BUK but shells from a fighter jet. The question raised now is whether it has any relation to the two Ukrainian jet that tailed MH17 as accused by Russia.
It was USA who pointed fingers at Russia and with this new finding, the Ukrianian has to answer. The picture above was posted on Facebook to prove their findings. We’ll have to wait for the official analysis and report.
Dah 3 hari berlalu dan #MH17 masih lagi menjadi topik hangat diperbincangkan. Namun di Twitter, #HM17 sudah tidak berada di spot no 1 lagi tapi semasa post ini dibuat, masih lagi Top 10. Biasalah tu, apa-apa pun lama-lama akan sejuk juga. Sama juga dengan tragedi MH370 lalu. Walaupun kehilangan masih misteri, masyarakat semakin lupa tentangnya.
Post ni just nak ucapkan takziah kepada keluarga En Yakub Salam Sudin kerana kehilangan anaknya Azrina Yaakub salah seorang daripada 15 orang crew dalam penerbangan malang itu.
Semasa membaca nama pada senarai crew tak pasti lagi walaupun nama Azrina Yakub macam familiar tetapi apabila nampak satu posting dalam Facebook memaparkan gambarnya barulah perasan bahawa dia itu adalah bekas atlet MSS Kedah yang pernah aku latih pada tahun 1990 lalu. Masa itu aku ditugaskan untuk melatih dua orang atlet sebagai persiapan kontingen MSS Kedah ke Kejohanan MSSM di Kuantan, Pahang. Seorang atlet lelaki dan seorang atlet wanita masing-masing untuk acara Decathlon dan Heptathlon. Atlet wanita yang dipertanggungjawabkan kepada aku ketika itu ialah Allahyarhamah Azrina Yakub. Acara Decathlon dan Heptathlon ini bukan calang-calang atlet yang mampu tanggung. Hanya yang cekal dan berjiwa “besi” sahaja berupaya bertanding pada tahap maksimum menghabiskan kesemua acara dalam tempoh dua hari.
Inilah foto yang mengesahkan Allahyarhamah adalah bekas Atlet Heptathlon Kedah (kanan) ke Kejohanan MSSM.
Pernah sekali terjumpa dengan Allahyarhamah semasa aku dalam satu penerbangan ke Kota Kinabalu sekitar hujung tahun 90an. Barulah aku tahu yang Allahyarhamah menjadi seorang pramugari dengan Malaysia Airlines. Terima kasih kerana beliau telah menghadiahkan beberapa tin Coke sebagai cenderamata semasa hendak turun dari pesawat.
Semoga roh Allahyarhamah dicucuri rahmat. Allahyarhamah pergi di Malam Jumaat, semasa bermusafir dan dalam ibadah (bertugas mencari rezeki halal) di bulan Ramadhan Al Mubarraq dan atas sebab aniaya manusia. Al Fatihah.
Juga Alfatihah kepada semua mangsa yang berugama Islam.
It is a new history in the aviation industry where the aircraft from the same company met with disaster within a scope of 4 month. In Mac this year MH370 went missing and still a mystery in modern aviation history with all the latest technology utilised. MH370 is itself a history and with MH17 disaster it add up a new history not only to MAS but Malaysia.
Flight MH17 from Amsterdam en route to Kuala Lumpur carries 298 passengers including 3 infants and 15 crews. Bodies of nationalities that had been identified (to be updated) as posted on @BBCbreaking Tweets.
Malaysiakini UPDATES #MH17 Crash | MAS: Plane had clean bill of health
[1.50pm] In a statement, MAS said the B777-200 aircraft bearing registration no. 9M-MRD that operated MH17 had a clean maintenance record. The aircraft’s last maintenance check was on July 11 and the next check was due on Aug 27.
The maintenance was conducted at Malaysia Airlines’ hangar at KLIA. The aircraft had a clean bill of health.
The aircraft was manufactured in July 1997, and so had 17 years in service. The aircraft had recorded 75,322 hours with a total of 11,434 cycles.
All communication system on the aircraft were functioning normally.
After the tragedy finger pointing started between Russia and Ukraine. A Free Malaysia Today reported that it is a planned action based on video clip posted to YouTube abd Fardy Bunga reported on Harian Metro
Kuala Lumpur : Perkhidmatan Keselamatan Ukraine (SBU) mendakwa berjaya memintas dua perbualan telefon di mana pemisah pro-Russia yang mengaku tersalah tembak jatuh Penerbangan MH17 selepas insiden berlaku, semalam.
Rakaman perbualan dipintas SBU itu didedahkan kepada media Ukrain Kiev Post didakwa hasil perbualan antara pegawai perisikan tentera Rusia dan militan Cossack yang disokong kerajaan Rusia.
Panggilan telefon berkenaan dikatakan dibuat beberapa minit selepas kemalangan Penerbangan Malaysia Boeing 777-200 berhampiran kampung Chornukhine, kira-kira 80 kilometer dari barat laut Donetsk dekat sempadan Rusia, lokasi MH17 terhempas.
Berikut adalah transkrip daripada audio perbualan yang belum dapat disahkan kesahihannya yang dikeluarkan oleh Ahkbar Kiev Post.
Igor Bezler (IB): Kita baru sahaja menembak jatuh sebuah pesawat. Ia jatuh di Yenakeivo (Wilayah Donetsk).
Vasili Geranin (VG): Juruterbang. Mana juruterbang?
IB: Sedang mencari lokasi dan gambar pesawat. Ia berasap.
VG: Berapa minit sudah berlalu?
IB: Kira-kira 30 minit lalu.
Komen SBU – Selepas meneliti kawasan kejadian, pengganas menyedari mereka baru sahaja menembak jatuh pesawat awam. Perbualan seterusnya berlangsung 40 minit selepas itu.
Mejar (M): Ini adalah kerja orang Chernukhin yang menembak jatuh pesawat. Dari tempat pemeriksaan Chernukhin. Orang Cossack yang berpangkalan di Chernukhino.
Greek (G): Ya, Mejar.
M: Pesawat jatuh dari udara di kawasan lombong Petropavlovskaya. “200” pertama (kod laluan rahsia yang merujuk kepada orang mati). Kita menemui kumpulan ‘200’- kod untuk orang awam.
G: Baik, apa yang anda ada di sana?
M: Secara ringkas, ia 100 peratus pesawat penumpang (awam).
G: Berapa banyak orang ada di sana?
M: “S**l, serpihan jatuh betul-betul di atas kawasan perumahan.
G: Pesawat jenis apa?
SBU – Fasa ketiga perbualan membabitkan seorang Mejar dan Greek yang seolah-olah membawa komander Cossack Nikolay Kozitsin, menunjukkan bahawa kapal terbang Malaysia Airlines membawa pengintip.
M: Saya kurang pasti mengenai itu, Saya belum dapat melihat semuanya. Saya hanya meninjau kawasan kejadian di mana mayat pertama jatuh. Mereka masih terikat pada kerusi dan tali pinggang keselamatan.
G: Adakah sebarang senjata ditemui?
M: Tiada, sangat pasti, semuanya. Barangan awam, ubat-ubatan, tuala dan tisu tandas.
G: Ada sebarang dokumen ditemui?
M: Ya, seorang pelajar Indonesia, dari Universiti Thompson.
Militan: Mengenai pesawat yang ditembak jatuh di kawasan Snizhne-Torez. Ia pesawat awam. Jatuh berhampiran Grabove. Banyak mayat wanita dan kanak-kanak. Orang Cossacks berada disana untuk melihat perkara ini.
Pihak TV memberitahu ia adalah pesawat penumpang AN-26, tetapi mereka kata ianya tertulis Malaysia Airlines di pesawat itu. Mengapa ia berada di wilayah Ukraine?
Nikolay Kozitsin: Maksudnya, mereka membawa pengintip. Mereka tidak sepatutnya terbang di sini. Peperangan sedang berlaku.
Artikel ini disiarkan pada : 2014/07/18
The above conversation was based on this video posted on YouTube.
LONDON: Laughing rebels filmed the plane as it crashed, gleefully bragging ‘That was a blast – look at the smoke!’ while a fireball rose from the debris.
One of the voices is believed to be militia commander Igor Strelkov, who then penned a triumphant war cry on Twitter, saying: ‘We warned you – do not fly in “our sky”.’
A sickening mobile phone video posted online shows a pall of black smoke billowing over the crash site as three rebels provide an excited commentary.
The Daily Mail say the extraordinary footage – apparently filmed by the shooters themselves – charts the terrible final moments of the doomed airliner.
Ukrainian rebel Igor Strelkov published a tweet indicating he thought his rebels had shot down an Antonov-26 military plane of the Ukrainian Air Force. It now appears it was Malaysia Airlines flight MH17
Their camera does not zoom in enough to see the plummeting plane in the sky, but the rebels’ voices can be heard talking happily of ‘black spots – these are the parts flying’, suggesting it fell to earth in several pieces.
A voice believed to be that of Strelkov – dubbed ‘Igor the Terrible’ – announces: ‘The plane was hit!’ He adds: ‘Look at those black spots, these are the parts, flying … it was a blast … look, look, black smoke!’
Another rebel, possibly referring to the missile system, laughs and says: ‘It was worth bringing this thing, wasn’t it?’
None of the rebels can be seen in their horrific film, but it appears to be genuine because at the time only they seemed to know what was happening. Ordinary life carries on in the village where they were standing. A bus trundles by and an unsuspecting villager is seen wandering past the camera.
Shortly after the passenger plane was downed, Strelkov – seen smirking in propaganda photos – tweeted a boastful message claiming responsibility.
In this holy month of Ramadhan 1435H Allah tested Malaysians in a great way. Coincidently over TV Alhijrah earlier on 17 July 2014 I heard Ustaz Hanafiah Abdul Malek referring to Allah’s test on us. He mentioned that why not say Alhamdulillah instead of crying over spilt milk. By saying so, the angel will report back to Allah that we accept all His test of misfortune in good faith.
A Matter of Mistaken Identity?
There are reports that the target was the plane that flies Russian President Vladimir Putin who was on his was home from Brazil. However, his plane was late by about 40 minutes. The body paint of both aircraft is about the same and this might be a case of mistaken identity?
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Published on 17 Jul 2014
A Malaysia Airlines plane en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur has crashed in eastern Ukraine. There were 285 people and 15 crew members on board the Boeing-777 aircraft – READ MOREhttp://on.rt.com/qktj3s
It was reported that Malaysia Airlines has lost contact with MH17 from Amsterdam. It was posted on their Twitter @MAS This is what was published on The Verge Russian newswire service Interfax reported that a Malaysian passenger plane carrying 295 people was shot down with a Buk ground-to-air missile over Ukraine near the Russian border, according to an advisor to Ukraine’s Interior Minister. The advisor, Anton Gerashchenko, posted more accusations on Facebook, saying that the strike was carried out by Ukrainian rebels. He also posted a minute-long video of what supposedly is the smoking wreckage of the plane. A Reuters correspondent on the scene has confirmed the “burning wreckage of airplane, bodies on ground.” The Boeing 777 flight,Malaysia Airlines 17, was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. On Twitter, Malaysia Airlines has confirmed that it lost contact with a plane over Ukrainian airspace, but the cause is still officially unknown. The news comes soon after Ukraine said that a Russian plane had shot down one of its fighter jets, which would mark a new level of open hostility between the countries. That report has not been confirmed, and the spokesperson for one separatist group told The New York Times that missiles were fired by Ukrainian rebels from the ground, rather than in the air with Russian support. Russia’s defense minister reportedly said the accusation was “absurd.” Reuters Tweet @Reuters
Photo from Twitter @grasswire Picture from site of Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane crash in the settlement of Grabovo Ukraine
A video posted on Youtube Tittled Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 Shot Down Near Shakhtersk Donetsk oblast Ukraine, July 17