TRENTON, N.J. (AP) – The only American identified so far as a victim of the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in Ukraine lived in New Jersey as a child and returned to the Netherlands when he was 5.
Quinn Lucas Schansman, 19, had dual Dutch-American citizenship.
His grandfather, Ronald Schansman, was visiting a relative in Woodbury, New Jersey when his son called him to tell him of his grandson’s death.
“You go through all the phases of mourning,” Schansman told Philadelphia’s WCAU-TV on Friday. “At the moment, it’s just mourning. And of course anger.”
He told the TV station his grandson was studying international business at the University of Amsterdam and was flying to meet his father, stepmom, brother and sister for a family vacation to Bali. The TV station said Quinn Schansman’s father had worked at the Dutch Embassy in New York City in the 1990s.