Brief Video Emerges of Flight MH17 Before Takeoff

Chilling video emerges of Flight MH17 before takeoff (New York Post)

A video believed to have been recorded by a passenger from the doomed Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 that was shot down over Ukraine Thursday shows passengers in the plane moments before take off.

“Bismillah… #hatiadasikitgentar (In the name of God… feeling a little bit nervous),” passenger Md Ali Md Salim captioned the 14-second video that was uploaded to his Instagram account at noon Amsterdam time under the handle @masa1777, reports Malaysia’s Bernama state news agency.

The brief video offers a haunting glimpse of riders settling in and stowing luggage in the overhead bins for before the doomed flight took-off.

Salim’s friend, Mohn Zaem Nordin, 24, shared the clip on his Instagram later in the day.

“When I saw the video which had been uploaded about 15 hours earlier, I was shocked and did not think he would be on the plane,” he told Bernama.

Salim was a PhD student at a university in Amsterdam, he added.