TORONTO — Tourism Malaysia says its thoughts and prayers are with the families and loved ones of the passengers and crew of flight ****, as investigators continue to examine the wreckage of the Boeing 777 ***** site in the *******.
One Canadian passenger has been confirmed among the **** along with 189 Dutch passengers, 44 Malaysians, 27 Australians, one New Zealander, 12 Indonesians, nine passengers from the UK, four each from Belgium and Germany and three from the Philippines. Four passengers’ nationalities have yet to be verified.
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***************** said ****’s flight plan was approved by Eurocontrol, who are responsible for determining civil aircraft flight paths over European airspace.
***************** notes that the route over Ukrainian airspace where the ******** occurred is commonly used for Europe to Asia flights and reports that a flight from a different carrier was on the same route at the time of the **** ********, as were a number of other flights from other carriers in the days and weeks before.
In April, the International Civil Aviation Organization identified an area over the Crimean peninsula as risky. At no point did **** fly into, or request to fly into, this area. At all times, **** was in airspace approved by the ICAO, says the *******. ***************** is now avoiding Ukrainian airspace entirely, flying further south over Turkey.
