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"Mashable is following the latest reports on the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. See our previous coverage here.\n3 things you need to know:\n\nMalaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down on Thursday over eastern Ukraine with 298 people on board \u2014 nearly 200 of them were Dutch. There are no known survivors.\nU.S. officials believe the plane was downed by a missile fired by pro-Russian separatists. It may have been mistaken for a Ukrainian air force cargo plane.\nWorld leaders are demanding an immediate investigation.\n\n\nREPORTERS IN UKRAINE: Christopher Miller (@christopherjm) | EDITORS ON DUTY IN NEW YORK: Amanda Wills (@AmandaWills), Brian Ries (@moneyries), Chris Taylor (@futureboy) &amp; Louise Roug (@louiseroug)\n5.20 a.m. ET: Malaysian authorities hold press conference\nMalaysia's Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said in a televised press conference on Saturday in Kuala Lumpur the passenger manifest would be released later in the day. \nLiow said there had been no confirmation of the black box recovery as yet and Malaysian authorities have requested an independent investigation team.\nThe Transport Minister said it is inhumane if authorities are not allowed at the crash site in eastern Ukraine and he will be personally be heading there this evening.\n\"We will want to ensure a safe corridor to the site,\" Liow told reporters. \"We sent a team to Kyiv yesterday night. I will be leaving for Kyiv tonight to ensure we have access to the site.\" \n\"We want to retrieve the human remains as soon as possible,\" he said. \"The world has a moral obligation to ensure the remains of all victims are recovered and treated with respect.\"\n\nMalaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai addresses the media.Image: Kamal Sellehuddin, Getty ImagesHe called for all people to respect the integrity of the crash site and allow an investigation to proceed.\n\"Yes, MH17 has become a geopolitical issue. But we must not forget that it is a human tragedy. Days after the plane went down, the remains of 298 people lie uncovered,\" Liow said at the press conference.\n\"This outrage cannot go unpunished. Malaysia condemns this brutal act of aggression, and calls for those responsible to be found, and to face the full force of justice without delay.\"\n\nPost by Ministry of Transport Malaysia.\nMalaysia Airlines said their own analysis found the route MH17 flew was safe and described the track as a \"highway of the sky\".\nHe advised the passenger manifest would be released shortly. All nationalities have now been identified: Netherlands, 192 (including 1 dual Netherlands/USA citizen); Malaysia, 44; Australia, 27; Indonesia, 12; UK, 10 (including 1 dual UK/South Africa citizen); Germany, 4; Belgium, 4; Philippines, 3; Canada, 1; New Zealand, 1.\n\n4.22 a.m. ET: Russia accused of destroying evidence\nUkraine has accused Russia of helping separatist rebels destroy evidence at the crash site.\nAP reported that the Ukraine government said militiamen have removed 38 corpses from the site and taken them to the rebel-held city of Donetsk. The government claimed the specialists removing the bodies had Russian accents.\n\nPersonal belongings and luggage of passengers between debris of the Boeing 777, Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which crashed during flying over the eastern Ukraine region near Donetsk, Ukraine, 18 July 2014.Image:  Christopher Allen\n3.30 a.m. ET: Security zone to be set up around crash site\nA 20km security zone will be set up around the wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines jet, the head of Ukraine's Security Service Valentyn Nalyvaychenko said on Saturday.\nUkraine and pro-Russian rebels agreed to the zone after internationally-mediated talks, AFP reported.\nIt \"concluded with an agreement to set up a 20km security zone so that Ukraine could fulfil the most important thing - identify the bodies (and) hand them over to relatives,\" Nalyvaychenko said.\n\n1 a.m. ET: AIDS experts confirm six delegates dead\nOrganizers of the International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, Australia, have confirmed at a press conference six delegates who were due to attend have been killed. Earlier reports of more than 100 conference attendees on MH17 were not confirmed.\nThe people who died when the plane was shot down over eastern Ukraine have been confirmed as:\n- Pim de Kuijer, STOP AIDS NOW!- Joep Lange, co-director of the HIV Netherlands Australia Research Collaboration (HIV-NAT)- Jacqueline van Tongeren, of the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development- Lucie van Mens, director, AIDS Action Europe- Maria Adriana de Schutter, AIDS Action Europe- Glenn Thomas, World Health Organization\n\nJoep Lange lost his life in the crash.Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, the conference co-chair and a Nobel Prize winning AIDS researcher, said it is devastating for the community.\n\"The extent of our loss is hard to comprehend or express,\" she said in a statement. \"We grieve alongside all of those throughout the world who have lost friends and family in this senseless tragedy.\"\nExecutive Director of the International AIDS Society, Owen Ryan, said their lost colleagues will be remembered.\n\"Our colleagues were traveling because of their dedication to bringing an end to AIDS,\" he said. \"We will honour their commitment and keep them in our hearts as we begin our program on Sunday.\" \n\n10.12 p.m. ET: Malaysia Airlines offers refunds\nThe struggling Malaysia Airlines continues to tweet prayers for the victims of MH17. \nThe airline has tweeted it will waiver change fees for any customers no longer willing to fly on Malaysia Airlines due to the catastrophe.\n\nIn light of #MH17, we'll be waiving any change fees for passengers who wish to make changes to their travel plan - http://t.co/HUIWQXl7dx\n\u2014 Malaysia Airlines (@MAS) July 19, 2014\n\n\n9.55 p.m. ET: Confusion over black box\nIt is not clear whether the data and cockpit voice recorders from Malaysia Airline flight 17 have been recovered.\nAP reported:\nDonetsk separatist leader Aleksandr Borodai said \"no 'black boxes' have been found,\" although earlier in the day, an aide to the military leader of Borodai's group said authorities had recovered eight out of 12 recording devices from the plane. Since planes usually have two recorders, it was not clear what the aide was referring to.\nThe Ukrainian Economy and Trade Minister Pavlo Sheremeta told CNN the black boxes \"are in Ukraine\", but would not clarify if the government had them in its possession.\n\"They are on Ukrainian territory. I don't know whether we have it or the international team has it,\" he said.\n\n\n6.35 p.m. ET: Animals on board MH17\nMalaysia Airlines released the cargo manifest, which listed a number of animals on board including two dogs and nine birds.\nThe airway bill was also released.\nThe quick response was in stark contrast to the delayed release of the MH370 cargo list, which was not revealed for weeks.\nEarlier, Malaysia Airlines said in a statement it would release the official passenger manifest once all next-of-kin have been identified. \n\n3:15 p.m. ET: An eyewitness at the scene\nChristopher Allen, a freelance journalist at the crash site in Grabova, Ukraine, tells Mashable: \u201CI have never seen anything so horrifying.\u201D\n\nHere amid the broken bits of plane were twisted bodies, dismembered corpses and flattened flesh. Some were missing pieces of clothing. There was very little left; the most human component of the scene was the banal possessions of those on board.\nAn asphalt road stretches across these flat plains and, when we got there, different groups of people were milling around. Some teenagers and older men clustered around a few houses at the edge of the field, talking to press and smoking. Emergency services had set up tents, but there was little they could do, given that all the passengers on the plane had died.\nThough they carried weapons, soldiers did little to patrol the area. Both soldiers and emergency service personnel refused to talk to the press. What looked like a group of miners walked down this long, straight road as if on a vigil, seeming to mourn the dead. They, too, refused to speak to the press.\n\nRead his full eyewitness report.\n\n2 p.m. ET: Bodies rain from the sky\nLocal residents tell Reuters of a horrifying scene as the plane broke apart in the skies above. \nResidents in Rozsypne, Ukraine speak of a loud explosion, followed by \"objects ... falling out of the sky.\" \nOne of those objects, a woman's naked body, crashed through the roof over 65-year-old Irina Tipunova's house. \"The body's still here because they told me to wait for experts to come and get it,\" she says.\n\n12:48 p.m. ET: Heavily armed rebels block OSCE inspectors from entering crash site\nInspectors from OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) arrived by car to the crash site on Friday, and rebels denied their entrance, firing warning shots into the air, according to various reports from journalists and photographers who are on the ground. \n\nBREAKING: Shots fired by rebels at international team of investigators (OSCE) in Ukraine as they approach plane wreckage, via @KiritRadia\n\u2014 Terry Moran (@TerryMoran) July 18, 2014\n\n\nRebel's commender fires a warning shot when 2 #OSCE members leaved the road to inspect #MH17 part in a field. Mission left back to #donetsk\n\u2014 Pierre Crom (@PierreCrom) July 18, 2014\n\n\nFull access to #MH17 site denied by rebels to #OSCE observers\n\u2014 Pierre Crom (@PierreCrom) July 18, 2014\n\nDespite reports that said they were fired at, the organization tweeted that those were incorrect.\n\nIn response to media reports our monitors were not shot at while visiting #MH17 crash site today. #Ukraine\n\u2014 \u0421\u041C\u041C \u041E\u0411\u0421\u0404 \u0432 \u0423\u043A\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043D\u0456 (@OSCE_SMM) July 18, 2014\n\nA photographer tweeted that he saw the rebel commander fire a warning shot when two inspectors left the road to inspect a part in a field.\nCiting reporter Harriet Salem, The Guardian is reporting that the heavily armed rebels blocked the team of 30, all of whom were there to investigate the site.\n\n.@HarrietSalem at crash site: OSCE denied access by armed separatists; say bodies are starting to bloat and decay, expert team needed fast\n\u2014 Shaun Walker (@shaunwalker7) July 18, 2014\n\n\"There didn't seem to be anyone really in control,\" Michael Bociurkiw, spokesman for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, told CNN.\nThe team were eventually allowed in for 75 minutes, he said, and only had time to inspect 200 meters of the site before being forced away by rebel gunfire.\nThe crash site of Flight 17 is located in an area that pro-Russian separatists have controlled for months, and they were first on scene after the plane went down. \n\n12:10 p.m. ET: Obama says one U.S. citizen on board\nPresident Obama delivered a statement on the situation in Ukraine on Friday, calling the downing of the jet \"an outrage of unspeakable proportions,\" and announcing that at least one U.S. citizen had been on board the plane.\n\nPres Obama calls the downing of MH17 \"an outrage of unspeakable proportions\". At least one American among the dead. pic.twitter.com/idV6heqWZd\n\u2014 Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) July 18, 2014\n\nThe American citizen had dual nationality and was also a Netherlands citizen. In the noon speech from the White House Brady Room, Obama called the downing of the jet \"a wakeup call\" for the world and called on on Russian President Putin to deescalate the conflict. \u201CIt is not possible for these separatists to function the way they are functioning\u201D without Russian help, he said.\nRussia and the separatists \u201Cmust adhere to an immediate ceasefire\u201D to allow for investigation of shoot down, he said.\n\n11:45 a.m. ET: The Netherlands' disproportionate death toll\n\nRussian and Dutch citizens light candles and lay flowers in front of the Embassy of the Netherlands for passengers, died in the crash of Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 carrying 295 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur at close to Russia's border with Ukraine, in Moscow, Russia on July 18, 2014.Image: Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesThe Netherlands is a particularly small country with just 16.8 million people. \nBut there was a devastatingly large portion of Dutch citizens on board the Malaysia Airlines plane \u2014 189 passengers claimed Dutch citizenship \u2014 meaning the crash claimed \u201Ca greater share of the country's population than the September 11th attacks did in the US,\u201D Vox reported. \nU.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power tweeted that the scale of the disaster was \u201Chorrific\u201D for the Dutch people.\n\nScale of #MH17 disaster is horrific for people of Netherlands: Number of victims relative to total population is same as 9/11 for U.S.\n\u2014 Samantha Power (@AmbassadorPower) July 18, 2014\n\n\n11 a.m. ET: U.S. diplomat points finger at pro-Russian rebels\nThe U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations told an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Friday that the Malaysia Airlines plane was \"likely downed by a surface-to-air missile ... operated from a separatist-held location in eastern Ukraine.\"\n\nUNITED NATIONS (AP) _ US envoy to UN: Missile fired on plane likely shot from separatist-held area in East Ukraine.\n\u2014 Ken Thomas (@AP_Ken_Thomas) July 18, 2014\n\n\n10:45 a.m. ET: No U.S. citizens on MH17 manifest\nNeither Malaysia Airlines nor U.S. officials believe any American citizens were on board the doomed flight, contradicting an earlier rumor \u2014 reported by Interfax  \u2014 that there were 23 U.S. citizens on the flight. President Obama said on Thursday it was his \"first priority\" to find out if any Americans were on board.\nThe majority of those killed in the downing of the jet have been identified. The identities of four passengers remain unknown. \n\n10:30 a.m. ET: The rebels speak about their missile system\nKIEV, Ukraine \u2014 Nearly 24 hours after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down in embattled eastern Ukraine, pro-Russian rebels who have had a stronghold on the area for months admitted they have the type of weapon capable of downing a Boeing 777.\nAs first reported by AP's Nataliya Vasilyeva, Pavel Gubarev, the self-proclaimed governor of the Donetsk People's Republic, said the militia does have a \"Buk\" missile system, but it is faulty.\n\nNearly 24 hours after the crash rebels admit they do have a Buk 1/2\n\u2014 Nataliya Vasilyeva (@NatVasilyevaAP) July 18, 2014\n\nU.S. officials, meanwhile, are starting to believe that pro-Russian separatists were in fact behind the downing of the Malaysia Airlines jetliner on Thursday, The Wall Street Journal reported. \u201CThere are still a lot of questions,\u201D an official said. Among them, officials want to know if any Russian forces were at the scene of the SA-11 missile launcher when it was fired.\n\n\n\n\nMalaysia Airlines Flight MH17 Front Pages\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nde Volkskrant, published in Amsterdam, Netherlands Friday, July 18, 2014.\n\nImage:  Newseum\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaily News, published in New York, New York USA Friday, July 18, 2014.\n\nImage:  Newseum\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Guardian, published in London, UK Friday, July 18, 2014.\n\nImage:  Newseum\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNew York Post, published in New York, New York USA Friday, July 18, 2014.\n\nImage:  Newseum\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDe Standaard, published in Brussels, Belgium Friday, July 18, 2014.\n\nImage:  Newseum\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Times, published in London, UK Friday, July 18, 2014.\n\nImage:  Newseum\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHeute, published in Vienna, Austria Friday, July 18, 2014.\n\nImage:  Newseum\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKleine Zeitung, published in Graz, Austria Friday, July 18, 2014.\n\nImage:  Newseum\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe New York Times, published in New York, New York USA Friday, July 18, 2014.\n\nImage:  Newseum\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHet Nieuwsblad, published in Brussels, Belgium Friday, July 18, 2014.\n\nImage:  Newseum\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMetro Curitiba, published in Curitiba, Brazil Friday, July 18, 2014.\n\nImage:  Newseum\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLos Angeles Times, published in Los Angeles, California USA Friday, July 18, 2014.\n\nImage:  Newseum\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Calgary Sun, published in Calgary, Canada Friday, July 18, 2014.\n\nImage:  Newseum\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLe Journal de Montr\u00E9al, published in Montreal, Canada Friday, July 18, 2014.\n\nImage:  Newseum\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nToronto Sun, published in Toronto, Canada Friday, July 18, 2014.\n\nImage:  Newseum\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChicago Sun-Times, published in Chicago, Illinois USA Friday, July 18, 2014.\n\nImage:  Newseum\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Times, published in Shreveport, Louisiana USA Friday, July 18, 2014.\n\nImage:  Newseum\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBoston Herald, published in Boston, Massachusetts USA Friday, July 18, 2014.\n\nImage:  Newseum\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStar, published in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Friday, July 18, 2014.\n\nImage:  Newseum\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Sun, published in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Friday, July 18, 2014.\n\nImage:  Newseum\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSee our previous coverage here.\nHave something to add to this story? 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