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Passenger posts eerie joke before MH17 was shot down

He poked fun at the infamous missing Malaysia Airlines flight, joking that his plane might meet a similar fate.

An hour before he boarded, Dutchman Cor Pan uploaded a picture to Facebook of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that he was about to take to Kuala Lumpur with a caption saying, “If it disappears, this is what it looks like.”

A few hours later, the plane was blasted from the sky by a medium-range missile, spewing dismembered bodies, luggage and debris across a swath of Ukrainian land just 25 miles from the Russian border.

All 298 people aboard the plane — 283 passengers and 15 crew members — perished.

The reason behind the attack is still unknown.

As news circulated about the plane’s crash around midday, Pan’s picture began going viral.

He was one of 154 Dutch nationals on board the doomed flight, the head of Malaysia Airlines told Reuters.

Late on Thursday, his picture had been shared more than 10,000 times on the social-media site.

Dutch passenger Cor Pan (right with girlfriend Neeltje Tol) posted this photo of his Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 and a quip about the same carrier’s still-missing jet, which vanished in March.Facebook

His Facebook friends were devastated.

“This can’t be true!” said Alicia de Boer.

Petra Bleeker posted a picture of Cor and his girlfriend, Neeltje Tol, on which she superimposed a white rose, signifying death. It was unclear Thursday night whether Tol was on the flight.

“Such a beautiful couple who have been taken from life. I wish you the best wherever you are,” said Peter Bootsman.

Cor had earlier posted pictures of idyllic tropical beaches on Facebook, saying: “A few more days to wait yet.”