Individuals Bumped from Downed Malaysian Flight 17 Interviewed
BLACKWELL: It's 23 minutes after the hour now. There were a few ironic twists connected to Malaysia flight 17 both tragic, some life- saving. We've learned of a family also that lost another person onboard Malaysia flight 370.</s>PAUL: Can you imagine, losing something on both flights? And also there's this tale of a family that was supposed to have been on MH-17 and got bumped from the flight. Here's CNN's Deb Feyerick.</s>DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: If it disappears, this is what it looked like, posting what's believed to be a photo of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 on his Facebook page an hour before takeoff, the Dutch man making a dark joke referring to missing Malaysian airlines flight 37 which vanished from radar in March. His is one of the only known photos by a passenger purportedly of MH flight 17, shot down in rebel-held area of Ukraine. For this MH-17 passenger Mohamed Ali Mohamed Salim, the missing flight was also very much on his mind. Under the hash tag, "feeling a little nervous," he posted video, purported to be the inside of flight 17. Listen as a flight attendant prepares the cabin.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're boarding and we're loading. Once again, to ensure that for the flight --</s>FEYERICK: Australian Kaylene Mann's story is too much to believe. Still grieving her brother who vanished aboard flight 370, she now lost her stepdaughter on flight 17. And then there's a married couple, both Malaysian Airlines flight attendants. The wife allegedly swapped shifts off missing flight 370 and survived, but her husband swapped shifts on to flight 17. Sadly he died along with the 297 other passengers and crew. But there are other would-be passengers who are counting their blessings today, thanks to a chance decision or a twist of fate, that kept them off the doomed flight.</s>SIM: I was thinking, I feel I've been give an second chance, and so hopefully that I will get there safely and I will see my family again.</s>FEYERICK: Izzy Sim, her husband and baby were bumped off the full flight.</s>SIM: I'm feeling physically sick. I was, like, from the Hilton coming to the airport in the taxi, I was just crying.</s>FEYERICK: Also supposed to be on flight 17, Juan Jovel and his bride. After a five-and-a-half week honeymoon they switched flights to return to work without jetlag.</s>JUAN JOVEL: Feeling lucky, but at the same time, my heart bleeds for these families that expecting their loved ones to come home.</s>FEYERICK: Stories of improbable loss and improbable survival. Each one resonates because each one reminds us how fine the line is between what was, and what might have been. Deborah Feyerick, CNN, New York.</s>BLACKWELL: There have been reports this morning of explosions and gunfire near the crash site. We're going to go back live. Our CNN's Chris Cuomo is there this morning. We're going to take you back to the scene where this plane crashed after being shot out of the sky.