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American Quinn Schansman on Malaysia Jet Shot Down in Ukraine
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Dutch-American student killed on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was on his way
to meet his family for a summer vacation in Bali, relatives said Friday.
Quinn Lucas Schansman, 19, who had dual citizenship, was born in Fort Lee,
N.J., but lived most of his life in Holland, where he was studying
international business.
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"You go through all the phases of mourning," Ronald Schansman said from his
sister's home in New Jersey, where he happened to be visiting when the plane
was shot down over Ukraine on Thursday.
"Of course it's anger. It didn’t need to happen," he told NBC Philadelphia.
"A senseless thing to do."
The grandfather said Quinn was supposed to join his father Thomas, his
stepmother and his younger siblings in Indonesia and travel with them to Bali
for a week's holiday.
Now the father is on his way back to Holland to wait for the return of his
son's remains from the crash site, where pro-Russian separatists were seen
picking through the wreckage.
"We want to know why," Ronald Schansman said, noting that both the separatists
and Ukrainian officials have blamed each other for the missile attack that
brought down the Boeing 777.
"Who shot?"
Quinn Schansman was born in New York while his father was working for the Dutch
embassy in New York, the grandfather said. The family then moved to California
but was back in Holland by the time Quinn was five years old.
A cousin, Rodney Schansman of Georgia, said he had not seen the young man since
he was a baby but was planning a family reunion in Europe.
"Who would ever believe that a disaster that far across the world would
affect us here?" he said.
"Our prayers go out to all the families that have lost loved ones in this
tragedy."
"He stuck up for you and made you laugh when he saw there was something wrong,"
Fabienne Schriek said in a message to NBC News.
"He was ... kind of sensitive and caring. He had a lot of friends and
everybody seem[ed] to like him. If there was a fight in class he could cool
everyone down again, made a joke and it was like it never happened. He was
really down to earth and just [a] fun guy to have around."
"We are devastated," she added.
Most of the 298 people on board were from the Netherlands, Malaysia and
Australia, officials have said. An official passenger manifest from the
doomed flight has not been released.
One Dutch passenger did have ties to the United States.
Karlijn Keijzer, 25, was a doctoral student at Indiana University, where she
was on the rowing team.
"The Indiana Rowing family is deeply saddened by the news of Karlijn's sudden
passing," head coach Stephen Peterson said.
"She came to us for one year as a graduate student and truly wanted to pursue
rowing. That year was the first year we really started to make a mark with
the First Varsity 8 boat and she was a huge reason for it."
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