Following are profiles of a few of the victims who have been identified. If you knew someone on the flight, we invite you to share your recollections. We will update this as more information on the victims becomes available.
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The Dutch pair was headed to Kuala Lumpur on a trip for single parents and their children, according to the Daily Mirror. After taking their seats on the flight, Ms. van Langeveld and her son Gary took a selfie.On her Facebook profile, Ms. van Langeveld said she enjoyed pilates, tennis and skiing, and posted pictures of her adventures, often with her son.
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Minutes before her flight took off, Ms. Rajandaran sent what would be her final message to her family: “Look after my dog Lexi,” she said, her brother Murphy Govind told a Malaysian newspaper. He said his sister loved animals and he called her the dog’s mother. In addition to working as a stewardess, Ms. Rajandaran modeled for the airline, mainly for its magazines, and was involved in company events, said Annette Roman Vermani, her friend and a former stewardess.
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Paul Sivagnanam, who worked for Royal Dutch Shell, was traveling with his wife and son, identified in Indian press as Mabel Anthonysamy and Matthew Ezekial Sivagnanam. He had been the Asia Pacific chairman of the oil company’s information technology division.
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Cor Schilder, 33, and Neeltje Tol, 30
Cor Schilder, 33, and Neeltje Tol, 30
Florists - Netherlands
Mr. Schilder and his girlfriend, Ms. Tol, owners of a flower shop in the northern town of Volendam, were going on vacation to Bali, according toChannel 4 News. Mr. Schilder, an amateur musician, posted a photo on Facebook of the same type of plane owned by Malaysia Airlines that vanished in March. “In case it goes missing, this is what it looks like," Mr. Schilder wrote as a caption. Two months before the flight, Mr. Schilder posted pictures of an Indonesian tourist resort on his Facebook page. “We will stay in a villa with a private pool with rose petals floating in it,” he wrote in Dutch on May 17. “We won’t leave before all those petals have withered away.” It would have been his first visit to the resort, comments on his Facebook page showed.2.
Gary Slok, 15; Petra van Langeveld
Gary Slok, 15; Petra van Langeveld
Florists - Netherlands
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Jacqueline van Tongeren, 64
Jacqueline van Tongeren, 64
Communications Director - Netherlands
Ms. van Tongeren's interest in H.I.V. began in the 1980s, when she was a nurse for patients with the virus. More recently, she was the communications director at the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development and a member of the board of Art AIDS, which invites artists to produce work dealing with AIDS. Her interest in art dated to the 1970s, when she ran a gallery in Amsterdam. Ms. van Tongeren was traveling on Flight 17 with her partner, Dr. Joep Lange, a prominent AIDS researcher.
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Joep Lange, 59
Joep Lange, 59
AIDS Researcher - Netherlands
Dr. Lange, a renowned AIDS researcher from the Netherlands, was traveling aboard the Malaysia Airlines jet with his partner, Jacqueline van Tongeren, to the International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Lange had worked in the field of infectious diseases since the early years of the AIDS epidemic and had focused his efforts on making treatments cheaper in poor nations in Asia and Africa. “Joep was a person who knew no barriers,” said Dr. M.M. Levi in a statementon behalf of the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, where Dr. Lange worked.
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Karlijn Keijzer, 25
Karlijn Keijzer, 25
Student - Netherlands
To those who knew her at Indiana University, Ms. Keijzer seemed to excel at everything she did, from her work as a doctoral student in chemistry to her leadership on the university’s rowing team. "She was a kind, happy young woman full of ideas about the future,” Mu-Hyun Baik, Ms. Keijzer's doctoral adviser, said in a statement. Before Ms. Keijzer left on vacation with her boyfriend, Laurens van der Graaff, she was working on a research project that had the potential to help cancer patients and people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, her adviser said.
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Laurens van der Graaff, 30
Laurens van der Graaff, 30
Teacher - Netherlands
Mr. van der Graaff, a teacher, had hoped to write a novel. He was traveling with his girlfriend, Karlijn Keijzer, on a vacation to Indonesia. Friends of his who gathered at a cafe in Amsterdam the weekend after the crash said he was tall, charismatic and enjoyed being in the spotlight. Mr. van der Graaff had studied political science and Dutch literature at the University of Amsterdam. He had also been the president of the student rowing society, Skøll, and wrote for a student literary magazine.
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Martine de Schutter
Martine de Schutter
AIDS Activist - Netherlands
Ms. de Schutter was a program manager in Amsterdam at Bridging the Gaps, an organization that works on H.I.V. prevention and treatment. On her LinkedIn page, she described herself as a cultural anthropologist specializing in gender and sexual health, including H.I.V. and AIDS. “Throughout my (professional) life, I hope to contribute to making the world a better place to live, work and love,” she wrote.
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Pim de Kuijer, 32
Pim de Kuijer, 32
AIDS Activist - Netherlands
Mr. de Kuijer, a former European Commission diplomat, was also en route to the AIDS conference. A couple of years ago, he famously came out as being gay during a stand-up comedy routine in a well-known cafe in Amsterdam. After that experience, he committed himself to activism of all sorts. His passion for equal rights and democracy even brought him to Ukraine as a foreign election observer during the May 25 presidential election, after the Ukrainian revolution that brought down pro-Russian leaders. Mr. de Kuijer watched the chocolate producer Petro O. Poroshenko win the vote and was pleased, a close friend and former employer said. "Pim was so proud to contribute to democracy in the Ukraine,” said Lousewies van der Laan, a Dutch politician living in solvenia.
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Tessa van der Sande, 26
Tessa van der Sande, 26
Program Officer - Netherlands
Ms. van der Sande was a program officer in Amsterdam for Amnesty International The Netherlands. She was traveling with her parents and brother on a vacation to Indonesia, the organization said. She previouslyworked as a policy officer at the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Willem Witteveen, 62; Lidwien Heerkens; Marit
Willem Witteveen, 62; Lidwien Heerkens; Marit
Senator - Netherlands
Mr. Witteveen, a Dutch senator, legal scholar and author, was on board with his wife, Lidwien Heerkens, and their daughter Marit. Their son, Freek, was not on the plane. Mr. Witteveen had worked since 1990 as a law school professor at Tilburg University, where his daughter was a second-year student in the humanities school. He “was a scholar par excellence, a team player, a true colleague in the best sense of the word,” his colleagues at Tilburg’s law school said in a statement. “As an academic, Willem had a keen sense of social responsibility.” He practiced Universal Sufism, a religious philosophy connected to Islam that is practiced in Malaysia. It is not clear if the family was traveling to Malaysia or if Kuala Lumpur was a layover stop. “This loss is really unbelievable,” Ankie Broekers-Knol, the president of the Dutch Senate, said in a statement.
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Angeline Premila Rajandaran
Stewardess - Malaysia
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Paul Sivagnanam, Mabel Anthonysamy; Matthew, 9
Oil company executive - Malaysia
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Sanjid Singh Sandhu, 41
Flight steward - Malaysia
Mr. Sandhu, an ethnic Indian, hadn't been scheduled to work Flight 17 until he switched shifts with another flight steward, according to Malaysian news media. Mr. Sandhu went by the nickname “Bobby,” given to him in the 1970s by a nanny who liked the hit Bollywood movie of the same name, his father, Jijar Singh said. He was supposed to visit his parents after the flight landed and his mother had prepared all of his favorite dishes, the father said. A last-minute swap in March had saved Mr. Sandhu's wife, who is a Malaysia Airlines stewardess, from duty on the Flight 370 that disappeared on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Mr. Singh said his grandson, Mr. Sandhu’s 10-year-old son Hans, told him, “Dadaji, don't be sad. Your son is gone, but this son is here. I will take care of you all."
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Shazana Salleh, 31
Shazana Salleh, 31
Flight attendant - Malaysia
Ms. Salleh was a flight attendant and one of 15 Malaysian crew members on board the plane that crashed. Her father, Mohd Salleh, said it was her dream to become a flight attendant and to travel the world, The Malaysian Insider reported. "She went through so many interviews to finally land this job," he said. She had worked at Malaysia Airlines since 2004 after studying at a college in Penang, Malaysia, according to her Facebook page. Last weekend, she posted that she was watching the final game of the World Cup in Kuala Lumpur.
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Shuba Jaya, 38; Paul Goes; Kaela, 1
Shuba Jaya, 38; Paul Goes; Kaela, 1
Actress; Engineer - Malaysia
Shubashini Jeyaratnam, a Malaysian actress who goes by her stage name Shuba Jaya, and her husband, Mr. Goes, a Dutch businessman, were returning home to Kuala Lumpur from the Netherlands, where they had introduced their daughter Kaela to Mr. Goes’s parents. According to his LinkedIn profile, Mr. Goes, an engineer, was the director of supply chain management for a semiconductor manufacturing company. Ms. Shuba, who celebrated her birthday two days before the flight, worked in film, television, theater and dance. “She was never in it for the fame, but always had raw passion for acting and channeled it well onstage,” said Khairil M. Bahar, a director who worked with her on several films.“She was an admirable person and had
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Tambi Jiee, Ariza Ghazalee, Muhammad Afif, Afruz Tambi, Marsha Azmeena and Muhammad Afzal
Tambi Jiee, Ariza Ghazalee, Muhammad Afif, Afruz Tambi, Marsha Azmeena and Muhammad Afzal
Malaysia
The family of six had been living in Kazakhstan, where Tambi Jiee worked for an oil company, and they were on a short vacation in Europe before moving to Kuala Lumpur, according to Malaysian news media reports. Before they boarded the plane in Amsterdam, Mr. Tambi's wife, Ariza Ghazalee, posted a photo of their suitcases on Facebook, with a caption saying they were starting their new journey. The couple enjoyed travel, posting photos from trips to China, Egypt and Greece, and Mr. Tambi recently posted a photo of the family in Germany. The oldest of the four children, Muhammad Afif, 19, was a student atTaylor’s University in Malaysia. He was planning to study architecture at the university’s campus near Kuala Lumpur this fall. Mr. Tambi had worked as a manager in the oil industry for many years after studying industrial engineering at the University of Alabama and manufacturing systems at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom.
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Albert and Maree Rizk
Albert and Maree Rizk
Real estate agent - Australia
Albert Rizk, a real estate agent, and his wife, Maree, both in their early 50s, lived in Melbourne, Australia, and were returning home after a monthlong vacation in Europe, friends and relatives said. Phil Lithgow, the president of the Sunbury Football Club, said the family was involved with the club; Maree as a volunteer in the canteen, Albert as a team sponsor and a member of the club’s committee, and their son, James, as a player. "They were very lovely people," Mr. Lithgow told the Associated Press. "You wouldn't hear a bad word about them — very generous with their time in the community, very community-minded, and just really very entertaining people to be with." They are survived by their son and their daughter, Vanessa. Ms. Rizk’s stepmother’s brother and his wife were aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. "We thought it was unusual they would fly Malaysia because that earlier flight had gone down," Mr. Lithgow said.
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Liam Davison, 56, and Frankie Davison, 54
Liam Davison, 56, and Frankie Davison, 54
Novelist - Australia
Mr. Davison, an Australian novelist, and his wife, Frankie were among the victims of Flight 17, the Australian newspaper The Age reported. Mr. Davison’s work earned a number of accolades, including a National Book Council Banjo Award for Fiction for his novel “Soundings” in 1993, according to his publisher. Toorak College, a school in southern Australia where Ms. Davison taught literature, said she was “much loved” in a Facebook post, which was drawing scores of expressions of grief from students, colleagues and others. The Davisons had two children, Milly and Sam, the school said.
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Nick Norris, 68; Mo, 12; Evie, 10; and Otis Maslin, 8
Nick Norris, 68; Mo, 12; Evie, 10; and Otis Maslin, 8
Australia
Nick Norris was aboard the flight with his grandchildren, three Australian siblings — Mo, Evie and Otis Maslin, reports in theAustralian news media said. The children’s parents, Rin Norris and Anthony Maslin, had stayed behind to extend their vacation in Europe while the children had to return to school, the reports said. Ms. Norris’s sister Natalia Gemmell told the Australian news site PerthNow that the children were “beautiful, beautiful kids; just gentle, clever, beautiful kids.”
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Philomene Tiernan, 77
Philomene Tiernan, 77
Nun - Australia
Sister Tiernan, a Roman Catholic nun who worked at the Kincoppal-Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart near Sydney, was returning from a retreat in France. Sister Tiernan, who went by "Phil," had taught thousands of students in the more than 30 years she was involved with the school. On Thursday morning, she told the principal that her trip had included a visit to Paris to see St. Francis Xavier Church, where Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat, the founder of the Society of the Sacred Heart, is buried. It was a "very special moment” for Sister Tiernan, who was a sister of the Sacred Heart, the principal, Hilary Johnston-Croke said. "She was in a good space. She very much brought love in all her interactions with everybody."
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John Allen, 44; Sandra Martens; Christopher; Julian; Ian
John Allen, 44; Sandra Martens; Christopher; Julian; Ian
Lawyer; Teacher - Britain and the Netherlands
Mr. Allen, a prominent British lawyer, and his wife, Sandra, a Dutch elementary school teacher, died with their three sons, who ranged in age from 8 to 14. In a Facebook post, Mr. Allen's sister, Wonder Allen Smith, said: “I lost my whole family, my only brilliant brother and his beautiful wife and three magnificent children.” The family lived near Amsterdam and was traveling to Indonesia on vacation. "All of us who had the privilege of working with John during his 18 years at NautaDutilh came to know him as a kind, down-to-earth and humorous man and many of us have also lost a friend. He will be dearly missed," the law firm said in a statement
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Jane Adi Soetjipto, 73
Jane Adi Soetjipto, 73
Indonesia
Ms. Adi Soetjipto lived in Jakarta with her adopted son, Sasangka Hadi. Her father was Dutch, but she was born in Indonesia and lived there after marrying her late husband, Jan, who was Indonesian. Ms. Adi Soetjipto had spent several recent months in the Netherlands visiting her mother, who was ill and died during Ms. Adi Soetjipto's visit. She enjoyed reading French literature and had studied French, her nephew Joss Wibisono said. He waved goodbye to her at the airport in Amsterdam on Thursday before she boarded the plane with a close friend, Gerda Lahenda, whom she was to sit next to on the flight.
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Sri Siti Amirah , 83
Sri Siti Amirah , 83
Indonesia
Sri Siti Amirah was the step-grandmother of Malaysia’s prime minister,Najib Razak. "I personally share the grief of the families of those on board #MH17," Mr. Najib posted on Twitter. A family spokesman saidshe was the second wife of Mr. Razak’s grandfather, Mohammad Omar, who was her second husband. She had been in Amsterdam, where she has family, and was headed to Yogyakarta, Indonesia, to spend Eid al-Fitr, a major Muslim holiday celebrated at the end of Ramadan, the holy month of fasting, with her daughter from her first marriage. “She was a very, very nice lady,” said Faridah Abdullah, a family spokesman. “A kind-hearted, beautiful woman. She was a homemaker who looked after my grandfather very well. We called her 'ibu.'” The word means “mother” in Malay languages.
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Glenn Raymond Thomas, 49
Glenn Raymond Thomas, 49
Media Officer - Britain
Mr. Thomas, a media officer for the World Health Organization, was traveling to an AIDS conference in Australia. Originally from Blackpool, England, he was a former BBC journalist who joined the W.H.O and worked there for more than a decade. He was in charge of promoting the organization’s latest report on H.I.V. "His twin sister says he died doing what he loved,” according to a W.H.O. statement. Christopher Black, a colleague at W.H.O., remembered him as a tireless advocate with the "biggest smile." "The silence at the loss of his laughter is profound," he said.
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Cameron Dalziel
Cameron Dalziel
Helicopter pilot - Britain and South Africa
Mr. Dalziel was a helicopter pilot based in Malaysia, where he lived with his wife and two children. He was a South African citizen flying on a British passport, according to news reports. His brother said he was returning from a conference in Amsterdam. He worked for CHC Helicopters, where he helped to transport crews to oil rigs, according to his LinkedIn profile. A former colleague posted on Twitter that Mr. Dalziel was one of the world's best rescue helicopter pilots. His brother Campbell said he had wanted to help people from a young age. "He never ever wanted recognition just, you know, he enjoyed it," Campbell said. "He loved doing it."
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Itamar Avnon, 27
Student - Israel and the Netherlands
“They say life is short - yes it is true,” Dov Avnon, a popular Dutch-Israeli evangelist, wrote on Facebook after learning that Itamar, his 27-year-old son, was on board the doomed flight. The Avnons live in Holland and Itamar was on the flight headed back to Australia, where he was a second-year student at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne studying international business, the university said in a statement. Itamar, a dual citizen of Israel and the Netherlands, previously served as a paratrooper in the Israeli Defense Force, participating in Israel's operations in Gaza between 2008 and 2009, his father said. He wrote in support of Israel on Facebook. “I am happy that he grew up with the Bible and the faith that Christ died for him on the cross,” his father said.
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Quinn Lucas Schansman, 19
Quinn Lucas Schansman, 19
Student - United States and the Netherlands
Mr. Schansman was born in New York while his father was working for the Dutch government. The family moved back to the Netherlands when he was only a few years old, and he lived the rest of his life in Europe, said Katinka Wallace, a relative. He had dual Dutch and American citizenship, as President Obama noted when he announced Mr. Schansman’s death on Friday. Mr. Schansman’s grandfather was born in Indonesia, and the family had planned a three-week vacation to the country, Ms. Wallace said. Mr. Schansman’s parents were already there, waiting for him to arrive. He was studying business in Amsterdam and played soccer for the Olympia ’25 club in Hilversum, the Netherlands, relatives said. His Facebook page, last updated on June 20, mentions his girlfriend, features the assortment of photos expected of a college student and, now, includes notes of grief and loss.
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Andrei Anghel, 24
Andrei Anghel, 24
Student - Canada
Mr. Anghel was a medical student leaving for a trip to Bali with his German girlfriend, Olga Ioppa, according to the Toronto Star. He was the only Canadian on the flight. Mr. Anghel wanted to help find a cure for cancer and had been studying at the Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Romania. His sister Lexi Anghel said he had been looking forward to his "dream vacation." "They wanted to go hiking in Bali," she said. "He loved the outdoors and he loved beaches.” On his LinkedIn page, Mr. Anghel said he was passionate about "the science of living things, always questioning."
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Fatima Dyczynski, 24
Aerospace Engineer - Germany
Ms. Dyczynski was an aerospace engineer and the founder of a company called Xoterra Space, a start-up that focuses on data analysis. She was traveling to Perth, Australia, where her parents live, to start an internship at IBM, according to Australian news reports. Her parents said they had talked to their daughter on Skype just before she boarded her flight. She had been studying aerospace, aeronautical and astronautical engineering at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, according to her LinkedIn profile. A professor, Eberhard Gill, said in a statement released by the university, "For Fatima, virtually nothing seemed impossible." Ms. Dyczynski's company said, "Fatima was energetic, full of life and her dreams reached to the outermost of space."
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