Amsterdam: Before boarding Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 17Â , Cor Pan, a Dutch national, posted a photograph of the plane on Facebook with a caption that said if the plane goes missing this is what it looked like. A number of people have commented on the picture and joked with a reference to the MH370 which went missing in March this year.
Malaysia Airlines Flight Pic captured by Cor Pan with caption “if the plane goes missing this is what it looked like”
The post to Facebook was made last night, and location-stamped from Amsterdam’s airport city of Schiphol.
However, when the news of crash of Flight MH 17 broke out, his friend kept wondering what happened and since then the picture has been shared over 20000 times.
Cor posted the Pic with caption “Mocht hij verdwijnen , zo ziet hij d’r uit”, which roughly translates to “if the plane goes missing this is what it looked like”.
From what it appears, Cor along with his partner Neeltje Tol were travelling on Flight MH 17. Cor hails from Volendam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands and his facebook profile says he was self-employed.
However, many deny the possibility that Cor was travelling on the same plane. According to some sources, the plane in the Facebook photo has a registration number 9M-MRC – as indicated by the “RC” under the nose wheel and the crash aircraft was 9M-MRD. If that goes true, Cor became an overnight star, accidentally.
But this is not the end of story. The last glimpse of the Malaysia aircraft was also captured by a Malaysian passenger Md Ali Md Salim moments before departure.
The 14-second video, which was uploaded on his Instagram account, showed other passengers stowing their luggage in the overhead compartment, the Malaysian Star reported.
In the caption of the Instagram video, the 30-year-old seemed to have expressed his jitters before flying home.
“Bismillah… #hatiadasikitgentar (In the name of God… feeling a little bit nervous)”, read the caption of the video which has now been uploaded on YouTube and Facebook.
An announcement, believed to be the voice of the pilot, could be heard in the background. “At the moment, we are on the final stages of boarding and cargo loading. Once again, please ensure all your phones are off for the flight to…” said the pilot, before the video ended.
As per reports, Md Ali was a psychology PhD student at Erasmus University Rotterdam, was reported to be heading home to celebrate the upcoming Hari Raya in Muar, Johor.
Malaysia Airlines Friday confirmed that there were 298 people on-board flight MH17.
The identified passengers and crew comprised 154 Dutch, 43 Malaysians including 15 crew members, 27 Australians, 12 Indonesians, nine British, four German, four Belgians, three Filipinos and one Canadian.
The nationalities of 41 passengers are yet to be determined.
An Indian-origin flight steward Sanjid Singh Sandhu, 41, was among the 15 Malaysian crew members.
Sandhu’s parents received the news from their daughter-in-law, who is also a flight stewardess with Malaysia Airlines, at 4 a.m. Friday.
His distraught father Jijar Singh told a TV channel that “recently he swapped with a colleague for the return Amsterdam-Kuala Lumpur flightâ€.