Around 11:00AM ET today, Interfax, CNN, and other news agencies began reporting that a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 passenger jet flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur has crashed on the eastern border of Ukraine, near the border with Russia.

Some 280 passengers and at least 15 crew members, a total of 295 lives, are believed to have been on board. If the crash happened as early reports suggest, it would be the second crash involving a Malaysia Airlines plane within the past few months.

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