Malaysian Airlines 777 shot down over Ukraine, 295 people on board.

[Del Tachi]

Truly unfortunate.  Thoughts and prayers with the families of the passengers.

I hope there weren't too many Americans on board, but NATO citizens will likely make up a large part of the passenger manifesto

[Del Tachi]

I hope there weren't too many Americans on board, but NATO citizens will likely make up a large part of the passenger manifesto

I don't want to start a dispute in a thread like this, but I find this type of sentiment to be pretty disgusting.

Almost 300 people have been killed. What does it matter whether they have an American or a Malaysian passport?

Make no mistake, any loss of life at this scale is a great tragedy.

However, if a large number of the passengers are American or Western European then the incident probably has a bit heavier political implications, and I don't think expressing that sentiment is inappropriate given that this is a political forum.

[Del Tachi]

Both Bloomberg and Interfax quote the Ukrainian Interior Ministry as saying 23 US citizens killed.