Meet The Passenger Who Joked About The Doomed MH17 Plane Few Hours Before The Tragedy

A Dutch passenger, named Cor Pan, who was on the doomed Malaysian Airlines MH17 flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur has jokingly posted a picture of the plane on tarmac before the journey that was captioned ‘If it disappears, this is what it looks like’.

                                                        Dutch passanger Cor Pan

Cor Pan is believed to have posted this haunting image of the plane on his Facebook account in reference to the March missing Malaysian MH370 flight.

A screenshot of the doomed plane Cor Pan posted on Facebook

At first, many friends, who saw the picture update on Facebook, laughed about it wishing him safe landing, until news broke that a Malaysian passenger plane with 298 people on board has crashed in Ukraine near the Russian border. This made many friends, who had earlier saw the photo, desperately trying to find if it was not the same plane Cor Pan and his girlfriend, Neeltje Tol, were on.

Cor Pan with his Girlfriend, Neeltje Tol, who was with him in the doomed aircraft.

With Cor Pan’s cousin confirming that it was the same flight by posting the flight number as one of the comments underneath the picture. The photo, which Cor Pan took some minutes before his flight and updated it as a joke, in some five hours back turned into a section for an array of touching and heartfelt tributes to the self-employed traveller.

Some of the comments after it has been confirmed that Cor Pan was in the aircraft, which was shot down by suspected terrorists at the Russian-Ukraine border, killing all the 298 people on board, were so touching.

It would be recalled that in March, a Malaysian aircraft MH370 with 239 passengers was lost for days and after many speculations and investigations, the Beijing bound flight was said to have crashed even getting to its destination with no one alive.