MH17: Singapore confirms SIA flight 'minutes away' when jet went down


SINGAPORE: A Singapore Airlines (SIA) plane was just minutes away when the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 place was blown out of the sky in eastern Ukraine, Singapore's government confirmed Monday.

Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew told parliament that Flight SQ351, which was headed to Singapore from Copenhagen, was just 90km from the Malaysian plane - a distance covered in minutes by passenger jets.

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