In March, 2014 Boeing 777-200ER was on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, when in two hours after the departure the contact with the crew was lost. It was later stated that 239 people were on board, with the son of Irene and George Burrows, Rodney and his wife Mary, among them, The Independent reports.
With numerous controversies surrounding the Boeing disappearance, its location has not been identified. It was said to have crashed in the Indian Ocean without any passenger having survived.
While Irene and George were still mourning their son and his spouse, they got hit with another piece of news: yesterday a Malaysian plane with flight number MH17, coming from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was shot down over Ukraine. All the 298 people reportedly died in the accident, and Irene and George's step-granddaughter Maree Rizk and her husband Albert were there. The couple were returning from holiday in Europe, as a worse fate befell the family.
The circumstances of the accident are currently under investigation. The tragedy occurred in Donetsk area, located on the Ukraine-Russia border, where in the recent months the Ukranian military have been battling pro-Russian separatists.
Both sides are pointing fingers at each other. Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko called the action "the act of terrorism", which is to be blamed on the Russian side. His Russian colleague Vladimir Putin insisted that the accident is in the field of Ukraine's responsibility, saying that if they had agreed to a ceasefire, nothing would have happened.
Source:naij
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