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"Ripped our guts again": Family that lost relatives in Flight 370 loses another in Ukraine crash
CBS/AP ^ | 07/18/2014

Posted on 07/18/2014 2:35:37 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

Relatives, friends and colleagues paid tribute Friday to Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash victims even before the airline released their names as it scrambled to contact the next of kin of the victims. For one Australian family, the crash represented an almost unbelievable double tragedy.

Kaylene Mann's brother Rod Burrows and sister-in-law Mary Burrows were on board Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 when it vanished in March. On Friday, Mann found out that her stepdaughter, Maree Rizk, was killed on Flight 17.

"It's just brought everyone, everything back," said Greg Burrows, Mann's brother. "It's just ... ripped our guts again."

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: australia; crimea; donetsk; malaysia; malaysiaairlines; mh17; mh370; russia; shotdownbychina; southchinasea; ukraine
It might be a safe bet that no one in that family flies Malaysai Air again.
1 posted on 07/18/2014 2:35:37 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

What are the odds? Damn.


2 posted on 07/18/2014 2:45:34 PM PDT by Miles the Slasher
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To: Responsibility2nd

God that’ sad.


3 posted on 07/18/2014 2:59:59 PM PDT by McGruff (Umm)
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To: Responsibility2nd

But Malaysian Air sent them a travel voucher for $300.00


4 posted on 07/18/2014 3:04:29 PM PDT by Nachoman (libertyarmstx.com is now open!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I won’t fly them EVER!!!!


5 posted on 07/18/2014 3:59:43 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: Responsibility2nd

How horrible. Those poor people.


6 posted on 07/18/2014 4:01:15 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

And everybody takes two or three quiet steps away from the family.


7 posted on 07/18/2014 9:29:29 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
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