All 298 people on a Malaysia Airlines flight diedwhen a missile apparently struck the plane on Thursday.It was traveling from Amsterdam,Holland to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia at the time.The wreckage fell over a wide area around Donetsk,in eastern Ukraine.Ukrainian government forces are fightingpro-Russia separatists in that area.On Friday, U.S. President Barack Obama called the incidentan "outrage of unspeakable proportions.""Evidence indicates that the plane was shot downby a surface-to-air missile that was launchedfrom an area that is controlledby Russian-backed separatists inside of Ukraine."Mr. Obama spoke from the White House.He did not say who was responsible for the crash.But he did note what he called a steady flow of supportfrom Russia for the separatists."This includes arms and training.It includes heavy weapons and it includes anti-aircraft weapons."Mr. Obama called for an immediate cease-firebetween the Ukrainian government and the separatists.He said the two sides must stop fighting to permit an investigation.U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon led a worldwide callfor an open investigation of the crash.Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the crash was,in his words, "not an accident; it's a crime."And German Chancellor Angela Merkel said,"There are many indications that the plane was shot down,so we have to take things seriously."Malaysia's Transport Minister saidit would be an "outrage against human decency"if the airliner was shot down on purpose.The crash of flight MH17 happened four monthsafter another Malaysia Airlines plane, Flight MH370, went missing.That plane was traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, China.Extensive searches have taken placeacross the South China Sea to the Indian Ocean.But it has not been found.On Thursday, officials from Ukraine's Foreign Ministry saidthat MH17 was flying at a height of about 10,000 meterswhen a Buk missile struck it.The Buk is a Russian-made surface-to-air missilethat can hit extremely high targets.A Malaysia Airlines statement said Flight MH17 lost contactwith Ukrainian air-traffic controllers at 2:15 UTC.About the same time, social media postings on Twitterand the Russian website VKontakte claimedthat separatists had shot down an AN-26 military transport planenear the town of Torez,not far from the where the passenger plane crashed.A separatist leader and Russian citizenknown as Igor Strelkov reportedly placed the posts.The VKontakte posting included a video showing smoke risingfrom the fields outside Torez.It said the military transport was shot downin the area somewhere near the Progress coal mine.Later, a new posting on the Vkontatke Website and Twitter replaced it.The new posting came from Alexander Borodai,the leader of the separatist People's Republic of Donetsk.It said a passenger jet had crashed near Torez.The separatist leader denied involvement in the crashand suggested that Ukrainian government forces were responsible.Most of the passengers on the Malaysian plane were Dutch.Many were scientists heading to an international AIDS conference in Australia.Emergency workers reported that more than 180 bodies have been located.Reports conflict about whether the plane's audioand video recorders have been recovered.And that's In The News,from VOA Learning English.