Oh man, a plane crash is bad enough, but a plane being shot down in a world hot spot? Even worse.
Per Politico:
An adviser to Ukraine's interior minister says a passenger plane carrying 295 people was shot down Thursday, the Associated Press reported.
Reuters has more:
The Interfax report said the plane came down 50 km (20 miles) short of entering Russian airspace. It "began to drop, afterwards it was found burning on the ground on Ukrainian territory," the unnamed source said.
The plane appeared to have come down in a region of military action where Ukrainian government forces are battling pro-Russian separatists.
Obviously there will be more details coming forward, but to say this isn't good would be the understatement of the century. There was some 300 people who will never see their families again and the potential for full scale war.