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C. In March, another Malaysia Airlines plane was lost while flying from Kuala Lumpur to the Chinese capital Beijing. That airliner has not been found in the vast area of ocean where it is believed to have crashed.
D. Some of the world’s foremost AIDS researchers were thought to have been on the flight. More than half those killed in the crash were Dutch and the next largest group was Australian. With 4.2 million people, Melbourne is a bit smaller than the 4.4 million population of Australia's largest city Sydney.
B. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Russian troops have been involved in conflicts over control over all of these regions. Last February, military personnel in Russian-made uniforms without insignia seized control of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula on the Black Sea.
D. In 1983, a Soviet fighter jet shot down a Korean Airlines plane that it mistook for a spy plane over its airspace; 269 killed. In 1988, a U.S. warship shot down an Iranian airliner after mistaking it for a warplane; 290 killed. In 2001, an errant missile fired during Ukraine military exercises downed an Air Siberia airliner; 78 killed.