American Victim on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 Identified - East Idaho News
National

American Victim on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 Identified

  Published at

ht mh17 victim quinn schansman facebook jc 140718 16x9 992?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1405717228113Quinn Schansman/Facebook(NEW YORK) — Only one of the victims aboard the doomed Malaysia Airlines flight struck by a missile in Ukraine has been identified as an American: Quinn Lucas Schansman.

President Obama identified him Friday during a news conference, saying our “thoughts and prayers are with his family through this terrible loss.”

His devastated cousins told ABC News that Schansman is also a Dutch citizen, but declined to say more.

Schansman attended the International Business School at Hogeschool van Amsterdam in the Netherlands, according to his Facebook page.

He also appeared to be a soccer player. Dutch club Olympia ’25 named him in a statement, saying they “can barely comprehend the news.” The club also named five other members as victims aboard the plane.

“We wish the surviving family members and friends much strength in digesting this inconceivable loss, this huge hit,” reads a translated version of the statement posted on the club’s website.

Schansman is among 298 victims of Flight 17, which was taken down by a surface-to-air missile on Thursday in eastern Ukraine, near the Russian border, on a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.


Copyright 2014 ABC News Radio

SUBMIT A CORRECTION