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Friday, 18 July 2014
Malaysia Airlines Plane Crash
Malaysia Airlines Plane Crash Victims Named.
A former journalist and two Newcastle United fans are among the British victims who perished in the horrific mid-air disaster
Briton Glenn Thomas was one of nine UK nationals on board flight MH17 when it crashed in eastern Ukraine, colleagues said.
Two Newcastle United fans, John Alder and Liam Sweeney, who were travelling to see their football team play in New Zealand, also died in the crash, according to NUFC.com and the Newcastle Evening Chronicle.
Newcastle United fan Liam Sweeney
Mr Thomas, 49, was among 100 delegates reportedly on their way to an international conference on Aids in Melbourne, Australia.
He was a media officer at the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Geneva where friends today spoke of their shock and loss.
Fadela Chaib, a spokeswoman for WHO, said: "We have lost a wonderful person and a great professional. Our hearts are broken. We are all in shock."
Dr Lange is believed to have been with partner Jacqueline van Tongeren
Some of the great minds in the fight against HIV and Aids were on their way to the International Aids Society (IAS) summit, including, it is understood, one of its former presidents Dr Joep Lange, a well-known researcher from the Netherlands.
"If this is the case then the HIV/Aids movement has truly lost a giant," the IAS said in a statement.
Among the 283 passengers and 15 Malaysia Airlines cabin crew on board were also 173 Dutch nationals, 44 Malaysians, 27 Australians, 12 Indonesians, four Germans, four Belgians, three Filipinos, one Canadian and a New Zealander.
Albert Rizk and his wife Maree were returning from a holiday in Europe
In a bizarre twist of fate, 41-year-old flight attendant Sajid Singh swapped flights to fly on MH17 - months after his wife swapped off the doomed MH370 which vanished flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, his his father Jijar Singh told The Malaysian Insider.
Kaylene Mann, from Queensland, Australia, who lost her brother and sister-in-law in the flight which disappeared on March 8, 2014, is now mourning the loss of her stepdaughter Maree Rizk, who together with her husband Albert, were were aboardMH17 on their way back to their Melbourne home after a month-long European holiday.
Sailor and businessman Nick Norris, 68, was also on his way home from a breakaway in Europe with his three grandchildren, Milo Maslin, 12, Evie Maslin, 10, and Otis Maslin eight, aboard the airliner, Perth Now reported.
Cor Pan posted a picture of the airliner on Facebook before he boarded it
The children's parents were said to be devastated, while Mr Norris's daughter Natalia Gemmell, said her father was a "great man" and described her niece and nephews as "gentle, clever and beautiful kids".
The Australian media also reported a much-loved nun, Philomene Tiernan, from Sydney, Toorak college teacher Frankie Davison and her husband Liam, studentElaine Teoh and her Dutch boyfriend Emiel Mahler and security consultant Marco Grippeling, from Melbourne, among the victims.
Young Dutchman Cor Pan, from Volendam, north of Amsterdam, who is also believed to have perished in the disaster, posted a picture of the jetliner on Facebook, minutes before he boarded it, writing: "If it should disappear, this is what it looks like."
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