Smoke rising: Flight from Amsterdam which crashed in Donetsk
A Malaysia Airlines plane has crashed in Ukraine with 295 people on board.
Reports this afternoon say the passenger jet was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, and is thought to have crashed near to the Russian border.
The Russian Aviation Industry said the plane did not enter Russian airspace when expected, but crashed in Eastern Ukraine.
It comes just over four months after the airline's Flight MH370 disappeared without trace as it flew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing
The Interfax report said the plane came down 50km (20 miles) short of entering Russian airspace.
An unnamed source said it "began to drop, afterwards it was found burning on the ground on Ukrainian territory."
The plane appeared to have come down in a region of military action where Ukrainian government forces are battling pro-Russian separatists.
A separate unnamed source in the Ukrainian security apparatus, quoted by Interfax, said the plane disappeared from radar at a height of 10,000 metres after which it came down near the town of Shakhtyorsk.
The Ukrainian Interior Ministry says the plane was brought down by a ground-to-air missile.
280 passengers were on board, with 15 crew. All are believed to have died.
Malaysia Airlines has confirmed it has lost contact with flight MH17 from Amsterdam.
One Ukrainian official claims MH17 was shot down by a missile fired from a Buk launcher, while flying at an altitude of 33,000ft.
The footage below shows the type of missile launcher they say was involved.
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Russia Today has tweeted this picture, which they say is an eyewitness photo of debris where MH17 came down.
The image has not yet been verified.