Malaysia Airlines Disaster: How a Missile Could Take Down a Plane

  
A Malaysia Airlines flight en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, was downed over a warzone in eastern Ukraine today (July 17). Ukrainian government officials said a surface-to-air missile may have taken down the airplane.

Flight MH17 crashed in the region of Donetsk, a pro-Russian rebel stronghold, killing all 298 people aboard, reported Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor to Ukraine's interior minister. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said in a statement he wasn't ruling out the possibility that the plane was shot down, and the United States has since concluded the airplane was shot down, a senior U.S. official told CNN.