BLOOMBERG Bloomberg Bottom Line July 17, 2014
They were5 a. M. , informed that Traffic Control lost contact with the plane. A Ukraine Interior Ministry spokesman, they feel it was shot down by rebels. The rebels deny that at this point. According to Ukrainian Air Traffic Control, the plane was flying at almost 34,000 feet, and so it would take a fairly sophisticated surfacetoair missile to do that. Members,ngers, 15 crew a total of 295, according to the Ukrainian Government, all of them have been killed. There is an unconfirmed report that 23 of them were americans. Again, no confirmation of that. United states had closed the airspace to ...