KUALA LUMPUR: Shell Malaysia has confirmed that four of the company’s employees were on board the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which crashed in Ukraine.
“We are sad to announce that four Shell employees are believed to have died in this tragic incident,” Shell said in a statement issued on its website today.
The four employees are:
- Tambi Jiee of Malaysia, who was travelling with his wife and four children;
- Paul Rajasingam Sivagnanam of Malaysia, who was travelling with his wife and son;
- Petra van Langeveld of the Netherlands who was travelling with her son; and
- Klaas Willem van Luik of the Netherlands who was based in Brunei.
The statement said Shell is providing support to the families of our employees to help them through this time of grief.
“Our thoughts go out to the families and friends of all the passengers and crew on board flight MH17,” it added.
Flight MH17, a Boeing 777-200, was en route from Am sterdam to Kuala Lumpur, when it crashed in Ukraine near the Russian border.
MH17, carrying 298 passengers and crew departed Am sterdam at 12.15pm (Amsterdam time) on Thursday and was due to arrive at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 6.10am (Malaysian time) on Friday.