A teenage boy and his mom looked happy and carefree in a touching last selfie he snapped as they sat in their seats aboard fated flight MH17.
Gary Slok, 15, and his mother, Petra, were on their way to Kuala Lumpur, the flight’s intended destination, for a “dream holiday of their life,” according to a published report.
“Sadly they never got the chance to fulfill that dream,” a spokesman for Slok’s local football team in Maassluis, the Netherlands, said Saturday during a memorial service for the young goalkeeper, the Mirror reported. “But his story and his last picture tell you how dreams of many people with wonderful lives ahead of them have been wrecked.”
Slok and his mother were two of 298 people that boarded an early morning flight out of Amsterdam only to be struck by a missile three hours into the journey. There are no known survivors of the now-infamous Flight 17.
Regis Crolla, one of the 193 Dutch passengers killed on the crash, wrote on his Facebook just before take off: “Going back to my roots. see ya very soon BALI ! <3”
After hearing about the plane crash, friends started commenting on the post “no way” and “hope you’re OK,” but late Thursday, the comments got more grim. Many posted frowny faces, and one friend wrote, “I pray for a miracle.”
Just days before, Crolla posted that he was feeling optimistic. “I want to travel the world,” he wrote.