NEWS: Aberdeenshire Family Were Due To Fly On Crash Flight

Jul 18, 2014, 09:18 AM

An Aberdeenshire family had been due to fly on a Malaysia Airlines plane which crashed over Ukraine.

Nearly 300 people died when the flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur fell out of the sky yesterday.

Around half of the people on board were Dutch - there were also nine British passengers.

Izzy Sim, her husband Barry and their baby were meant to get on MH17, but were told there wasn't any room: