PM Modi's flight was on same path as MH17
July 18, 2014  10:14
Even as the world struggles to come to terms with the shooting down of a Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine, it has come to light that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on the same flight path as the MH17 Boeing 777. 

A report in The Hindu newspaper claimed that Prime Minister Modi's flight back to India was rerouted after the incident, in which 298 people died. 

The flight had taken off from Frankfurt, Germany, about two hours before the Malaysian airliner was hit was a surface-to-air missile.
 
According to the report, while the Indian PM faced no danger his plane would have flown over the same area had the crash not taken place. 

The Malaysian airliner crashed at Torez, near Shakhtersk, some 40 kilometres from the Russian border in Ukraine after being hit by a missile, as concluded by the US. The incident happened at 13:20 hrs GMT. 

The Air India plane carrying PM Modi would have flown over the same area about an hour later had it continued on the same flight path, as the flight had taken off from Frankfurt at 11:22 GMT. 
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