A Singapore Airlines (SIA) plane was about 90km or some 10 minutes away, when a Malaysia Airlines jet was shot down over eastern Ukraine last month.
Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew confirmed in a Parliamentary session that the plane was actually about 90km away, adding that there were no flight restrictions above 32,000ft over the particular airspace at the time.
MH17 was flying from Amsterdam, Netherlands to Kuala Lumpur when it was blown out of the skies while flying over eastern Ukraine where pro-Russian rebels are fighting government forces.
Source: KUNA