Scottish couple Barry and Izzy Sim said that they felt sick after hearing the news: “You get this sick feeling in the pit of your stomach... We started getting butterflies. Your heartbeat starts going.”
Izzy went on to say how grateful they are that they were no aboard the ill-fated flight: “There must have been someone watching over us and saying ‘you must not get on that flight.’”
295 people were killed when a Malaysian Airlines flight bound for Kuala Lumpur crashed in Ukraine.
It has been reported that a heartbreaking 80 children were aboard the flight.