Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said his thoughts and prayers are for the passengers and crew on board Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH17 which was reported to have crashed in Ukraine, near the Russian border on Thursday.

"My thoughts and prayers for passengers and crew onboard MH17", he said in his tweet today.


An international news agency reported that a Malaysian airplane had crashed in Ukraine near the Russian border on Thursday.

MAS in its latest tweet said it lost contact with the flight and the last known position was over Ukrainian airspace.