'American Pie' star Jason Biggs criticised for 'sick' Twitter joke on MH17 crash

Jason Biggs has been slammed for making "sick" jokes on Twitter about the Malaysia Airlines plane crash yesterday.

The 'American Pie' star posted, "Anyone wanna buy my Malaysian Airlines frequent flier miles?" on Twitter for which he has been slammed by fans and users.

He initially tried defending his tweet and wrote, "In all seriousness, tho- HOW DO YOU MISTAKENLY SHOOT DOWN A COMMERCIAL PLANE?! Ugh", followed by another tweet, "It's saddest for the victims and their families, obviously. But Malaysia Airlines is apparently a GREAT airline. Gonna be tough to recover".

However, he later abused the users who had criticised his tweets and told them, "Channel your issues elsewhere".

Later, he went on to apologise to his followers.

1). Hey all- ok, so- I am deleting my previous tweets. People were offended, and that was not my intent. Sorry to those of you that were.

— Jason Biggs (@JasonBiggs) July 17, 2014

2). This is obviously a horrible tragedy, and everyone-including myself- is sad and angry about it. Sending positive thoughts to the

— Jason Biggs (@JasonBiggs) July 17, 2014

3). victims and their families. P.S. No one is making me send these tweets- I simply understand that my comments might have come off

— Jason Biggs (@JasonBiggs) July 17, 2014

4). as insensitive and ill-timed. For that, I apologize.

— Jason Biggs (@JasonBiggs) July 17, 2014

The Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 had lost contact in Ukrainian airspace around 50km from the border with Russia, and it has been claimed that the plane was "shot down".