An Indonesian flight attendant, who is listed as working on board the missing AirAsia flight, tweeted a message of support to the victims of the MH17 disaster just months before his own plane disappeared en route to Changi, Singapore.
Oscar Desano from Jakarta, is thought to be one of the seven crew members on board flight QZ8501 which went missing yesterday.
Mr Desano, whose Twitter account stated that he spent Christmas Day relaxing in a jacuzzi with a friend, issued an eerie tweet earlier in the year to the victims of Malaysian Airline MH17, which was shot out of the sky in July.
"I feel truly sorry for the lost of MH17 by Malaysia Airlines. It's been 2 big catastrophe event for MAS in 1 year," tweeted on July 17.
"My deep condolences also for the pax's family, may all the casualties rest in peace...
"Hope everything will be OK also for the internal company of Malaysia Airlines... Amiiinnn...'
The four flight attendants on flight QZ8501 are listed as Wanti Setiawati, Khairunisa Haidar Fauzi, Oscar Desano and Wismoyo Ari Prambudi, along with technician Saiful Rakhmad.
On Christmas Eve, Desano wrote on Twitter:
He also posted a picture of himself wearing his AirAsia identification tag.
The mother of AirAsia stewardess Khairunisa Haidar Fauzi, has also come forward to share an image of her daughter who was listed as working on the missing flight.
AirAsia stewardess Khairunisa Haidar Fauzi is on the missing flight.
Rohana and a number of Ms Fauzi's other relatives were pictured gathering at her home in South Sumatra where she shared a family photograph featuring her missing daughter.
It has been reported there were 155 passengers on board - including 138 adults, 16 children and one infant, and AirAsia have confirmed there were two pilots, four flight attendants and one engineer on board.
Distraught: Ms Fauzi's mother with a picture of her daughter. Photo / AFP
Nationalities of the passengers and crew on-board are one Singaporean, one Malaysian, one French, one British, three South Koreans and 155 Indonesians.
The search and rescue operation for the missing flight has been suspended for the night due to unworkable conditions and will resume at sunrise on Monday morning.
- Daily Mail