Witteveen was killed on 17 July 2014 at the age of 62 , along with his wife Lidwien Heerkens and their daughter Marit Witteveen . They were passengers on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 from Schiphol in the Netherlands to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia , when the airplane was shot down near Hrabove in Ukraine 's contested eastern Donetsk region
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
Willem Witteveen