New Delhi: Even as the world struggles to come to terms with the shooting down of a Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine, it has come to light that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on the same flight path as the MH17 Boeing 777.
A report in a leading Indian English daily claimed that Prime Minister Modi’s flight back to India was rerouted after the incident, in which 298 people died.
The flight had taken off from Frankfurt, Germany, about two hours before the Malaysian airliner was hit was a surface-to-air missile.
According to the report, while the Indian PM faced no danger his plane would have flown over the same area had the crash not taken place.
The Malaysian airliner crashed at Torez, near Shakhtersk, some 40 kilometres from the Russian border in Ukraine after being hit by a missile, as concluded by the US. The incident happened at 13:20 hrs GMT.
The Air India plane carrying PM Modi would have flown over the same area about an hour later had it continued on the same flight path, as the flight had taken off from Frankfurt at 11:22 GMT.
It takes about three hours to fly from Frankfurt to Donetsk.
Ukraine has, meanwhile, declared the skies over eastern part of the country as a no-fly zone. The area has been a battleground for state forces and pro-Russia rebels for the past few months.
Source: ZeeNews.India.com
A report in a leading Indian English daily claimed that Prime Minister Modi’s flight back to India was rerouted after the incident, in which 298 people died.
The flight had taken off from Frankfurt, Germany, about two hours before the Malaysian airliner was hit was a surface-to-air missile.
According to the report, while the Indian PM faced no danger his plane would have flown over the same area had the crash not taken place.
The Malaysian airliner crashed at Torez, near Shakhtersk, some 40 kilometres from the Russian border in Ukraine after being hit by a missile, as concluded by the US. The incident happened at 13:20 hrs GMT.
The Air India plane carrying PM Modi would have flown over the same area about an hour later had it continued on the same flight path, as the flight had taken off from Frankfurt at 11:22 GMT.
It takes about three hours to fly from Frankfurt to Donetsk.
Ukraine has, meanwhile, declared the skies over eastern part of the country as a no-fly zone. The area has been a battleground for state forces and pro-Russia rebels for the past few months.
Source: ZeeNews.India.com
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