Gunawan Family, the Filipino-Indonesian victims of the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was able to send a text message to their family in the Philippines before the commercial jet liner take off from Netherlands on its way to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Gunawan’s family in the Philippines relayed to the media that their family member sent a message before the disaster.
Watch the video report of TV Patrol:
The entire family of Irene Pabellon-Gunawan was looking forward to a vacation in the Philippines, but the family never got to Manila. The 54-year-old Irene Pabellon Gunawan travelled with her Indonesian husband Budy Janto Gunawan and their children Sheryl Shania who is 20 years old and their 15-year-old son Darryl Dwight Gunawan.
The Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down near the Russian border in strife-torn eastern Ukraine on Thursday, July 18, 2014. The Gunawan Family was traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on board MH17 with 294 other passenger when a surface-to-air missile struck the Boeing 777-200ER over Grabovo, near Ukraine’s border with Russia.
In an interview with TV Patrol, the families of Irene Pabellon-Gunawan noted worked for Malaysia Airlines, and the family of their keen is set to join them on their family reunion, the Gunawan family also helped their relatives in Quezon financially.
Meanwhile in a separate report by Inquirer they learned the identities of the Gunawans from Amsterdam-based actor Pieter van Overbeeke, an indie-film actor in the Philippines, who worked together with Gunawan at Malaysia Airlines in Amsterdam.
According to Pieter Overbeeke, the Gunawan Family were bound for the Philippines because it’s summer break in the Netherlands, Overbeeke added further that Irene Pabellon camed from Lucena City in Quezon Province.
