A Malaysia Airlines passenger plane was reportedly shot down in Ukraine near  the Russian border Thursday. This is the second time for this airline.

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Malaysia Airlines’ Boeing 777 had 280 passengers and 15 crew members.

Anton Gerashenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s Interior Minister, said on  Facebook that the plane was flying at an altitude of 33,000 feet when it  was hit by a missile fired from a Buk launcher.

It came down just 20 miles short of entering Russian airspace near the town  of Shakhtyorsk, in an area where the Ukrainian government has been  fighting pro-Russian rebels.

It “began to drop, afterwards it was found burning on the ground on  Ukrainian territory,” a unidentified source told Reuters.

The flight was heading from Amsterdam  Airport Schiphol, the main international airport in the Netherlands, to Kuala  Lumpur International Airport outside Kuala Lumpur, the most populous city  of Malaysia.

The flight reportedly departed at 12:14 a.m. local time.

The crash comes a little more than four months after Malaysia Airlines  Flight 370 lost contact with air traffic control less than an hour after takeoff  from Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

The aircraft, also a Boeing 777, was carrying 227 passengers and 12  Malaysian crew members.

The airline issued a public statement an hour after the flight was expected  to arrive in China.

The subsequent search efforts, which involved multiple governments, expanded  to more than 60,000 square miles and soared to become the most expensive in  history.

Malaysia Airlines confirmed it lost contact with the flight.