Glenn Thomas, Joep Lange, Among Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 Victims

Two passengers aboard the doomed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 have been identified.
Glenn Thomas, Joep Lange, Among Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 Victims
Photo shows Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 taking off from Schiphol Airport in Schiphol, the Netherlands, on July 17, 2014. Fred Neeleman/AFP/Getty Images
Larry Ong
Journalist
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Two passengers aboard the doomed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 have been identified.

Glenn Thomas and Joep Lange were heading to an international AIDS conference in Australia, and were on the plane.

Joep Lange is leading clinical researcher from the Netherlands, and a former president of the International AIDS Society.

Seema Yasim, a doctor based in the United States, claims to have went to medical school with Lange, and tweeted out a series of tributes to him. 


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Glenn Thomas is the friend of Haileyesus Getahun, a World Health Organization Global TB programme coordinator.

The first British passenger who boarded MH17 to be identified, Thomas comes from Blackpool, previously worked at the UN and the WHO headquarters in Geneva, and is also a former BBC journalist.

Thomas, 49, has a twin sister, Tracey, who still lives in Blackpool. 

Getahun and a number of Thomas’ friends tweeted out their sorrow and memories of him. 


Larry Ong
Larry Ong
Journalist
Larry Ong is a New York-based journalist with Epoch Times. He writes about China and Hong Kong. He is also a graduate of the National University of Singapore, where he read history.