A man and his wife lost their three kids in a plane crash and had been contemplating ending things, but they did not. Years later, they received a gift that would help them keep on living. This is a story of their recovery.
Anthony Maslin (Maz) and his wife Marite Norris (Rin) once considered ending the pain they were feeling inside. The couple had been parents to three great kids for years until they received the very terrible news one day that all three had passed on.
Their pain must have been all-encompassing because it almost pushed them to join their kids. However, they were not selfish enough to do it because they did not want another group of people to mourn their loss. This is their story.
The couple’s kids, 12-year-old Mo, 10-year-old Evie, and eight-year-old Otis, were heading back to Perth with their paternal granddad, Nick Norris, while their two parents hung back in the Netherlands, finalizing some details. It was the only thing that saved the pair from the tragedy that befell their kids.
Rin and Maz promised to see them soon, and after the kids left, the pair went on to reminisce on the “phenomenal” couple of weeks they spent as a family in the Netherlands. But, unknown to them, that fortune would change drastically less than 24 hours later.
Rin’s father, Nick, had taken the kids to Schiphol airport, after which he checked them onto Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 which took off on schedule at 12:31 p.m. local time on July 17, 2014.One hour and 30 minutes into the journey around Eastern Ukraine, the watchtower lost all contact with the plane. Approximately 90 seconds later, debris started raining down over fields of wheat and sunflowers just on the outskirts of Hrabove, a village in Ukraine.
Maz and his wife were asleep when they received a phone call from his distraught assistant, who wanted to know if their kids had been on the plane. It led the man to Google, where he saw pictures of the wreckage.
The aircraft had been shot down. It broke Maz, and he fell to the floor stricken with pain. Then, his wife came downstairs to hear what had happened…CONTINUE READING