It’s just after midday on July 17, 2014, when 283 passengers, and 15 crew members board MH17 at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. 

Among the passengers are 12-year-old Mo, 10-year-old Evie, and eight-year-old Otis Maslin, along with their 68-year-old grandfather, Nick Norris. MH17 is bound for Kuala Lumpur International Airport, due to arrive at 6:10am local time. The family would then go on to Perth, Australia, where they live. 

But a few hours into the flight, the plane loses contact with air traffic control. The last known point of contact is about 50 kilometres from the Russia-Ukraine border. 

The parents of Mo, Evie and Otis are in Amsterdam, spending two more days in the city, before heading home to join their kids. 

That afternoon they think to themselves how lucky they are. How life doesn’t get any better than this. 

Late that night, they’ll receive a phone call. 

They are thrown into what they will later describe, a living hell.

 

CREDITS

Guest: Meshel Laurie author of CSI Told You Lies

Host: Jessie Stephens

Producer: Gia Moylan

Audio Producer: Ian Camileri

 

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