Are we going to die, Granddad? It hardly bears imagining what torture must have gone through the mind of Nick Morris in the brief instant between life and death after a missile tore through Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine.

Malaysian Airlines is still trying to determine the nationality of 18 people on board flight MH17.

World-renowned Aids researchers and activists heading to an international conference in Australia were on board the downed Malaysian jet, it has emerged.