Malaysia Airlines Plane Crash: More Than 100 AIDS Experts Killed In Disaster

World-renowned Aids researchers and activists heading to an international conference in Australia were on board the downed Malaysian jet, it has emerged. And news of their deaths has sparked an outpouring of grief across the global scientific community.

The Australian newspaper reports that up to 108 researchers were aboard the flight on their way to the southern Australian city of Melbourne to attend the 20th International Aids Conference, which starts on Sunday. The plane was scheduled to continue flying to the western Australian city of Perth after stopping in Kuala Lumpur.

Rebels Who Shot Down Malaysian Plane Thinking It Was A Military Aircraft Filmed The Crash Amidst Laughter

After the ill-fated Malaysian Airlines plane was shot down yesterday, it has emerged that the Ukrainian rebels who shot down the plane filmed it and their militia commander Igor Strelkov, tweeted after the crash"

    In the area Torez we just hit down Antonoc-26, it’s lying somewhere in the mine “Progress”.‘We warned you – do not fly in “our sky”. And here is the video confirmation of the “bird dropping”.‘Bird fell near the mine, the residential sector was not disturbed. Civilians are not injured.’

At the time, he apparently believed he had shot down an Antonov-26 military plane of the Ukrainian Air Force Plane. As soon as he must have realised the grave mistake,he deleted the tweet and video  .