MALAYSIA AIRLINES FLIGHT

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17: Victims revealed as world looks for answers

Early Friday, Malaysia Airlines identified 10 countries that lost citizens on flight MH17. The Netherlands suffered the greatest lose with 189 passengers on board, followed by Malaysia and Australia

Published: Friday, July 18, 2014

Indiana University has confirmed that 25-year-old student Karlijn Keijzer was a passenger on the Malaysia Airlines flight that was shot down in Ukraine. 

First responders sifted through the debris outside Donetsk between the villages of Rozsypne and Hrabove - trying to make sense of an unthinkable tragedy that killed 298 people, including 189 passengers from the Netherlands and a large contingent of AIDS researchers heading to Australia.
"The terrible news about the crash of flight MH17 over Ukrainian territory has deeply shocked me," said King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands in a release issued Thursday. "Just like the rest of the Netherlands, my wife and I follow the news to the minute and we hope to have more clarity soon."
Indiana University announced that one of their doctoral chemisty student, 25-year-old Karlijn Keijzer, was among the dead. The young woman from Amsterdam also held a master's degree from the university and was on the women's rowing team during the 2011 season.
“On behalf of the entire Indiana University community, I want to express my deepest sympathies to Karlijn’s family and friends over her tragic death,” said Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie in a statement. “Karlijn was an outstanding student and a talented athlete, and her passing is a loss to the campus and the university. Our hearts also go out to the families of all the victims of this senseless act.”
Joep Lange, prominent Dutch AIDS researcher, who was on the flight en route to the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, officials with the Kirby Institute at the University of New South Wales in Australia confirmed.
Conference attendees were told that about 100 of the people aboard the flight were on their way to that event, reported The Sydney Morning Herald.
"Joep had an absolute commitment to HIV treatment and care in Asia and Africa," Professor Cooper said in a statement. "The joy in collaborating with Joep was that he would always bring a fresh view, a unique take on things, and he never accepted that something was impossible to achieve. Our joint work in Bangkok, the HIVNAT centre, will stand as his legacy."

Sister Philomene Tiernan, a member of staff at Kincoppal-Rose Bay School in Australia, was on the crashed Malaysia Airlines flight.  

An Indian flight attendant, Sanjid Singh Sandu, 41, was fondly called Bobby by his loved ones. He was not supposed to be on the flight – but reportedly switched shifts with a colleague at the last minute.
"My son spoke to me over the phone just before his flight. I didn't know that would be my last conversation with him. What has happened has happened," his father Jigar told The Times of India, with tears streaming down her face.
Indonesian Ninik Yuriani, 56, was reportedly on the first leg of a trip back to Central Java to visit her 86-year-old mother.
“She sent me messages through WhatsApp a few days ago asking me to pick her up at the airport in Jakarta at 9:15 today,” said her younger sister Enny Nuraheni told The Journal. “We planned to go by car to Wonosobo on Monday.”
Yuriani, who has lived in the Netherlands for the past 17 years, made annual trips to her home country to celebrate the end of Ramadan