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Background checks on the 154 Chinese citizens aboard missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, including a Uighur passenger from the northwestern region of Xinjiang, had not turned up any evidence of their possible involvement in a hijack attempt, according to Beijing’s ambassador to Kuala Lumpur.
Huang Huikang’s comments, reported by China Central Television on Tuesday, came as Chinese authorities initiated a search of their own territory for the missing airliner. The “northern corridor” that Malaysian authorities said the aircraft may have flown along passes over the Chinese regions of Tibet and Xinjiang.
Flight MH370 went missing with 239 people on board on March 8, less than an hour into a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Two-thirds of passengers were Chinese.
When the jet was first reported missing, some comments circulated on Chinese social media networks about possible foul play by Uighur activists fighting for an independent homeland.
18/03/14 Tom Mitchell in Beijing and Jeremy Grant/Financial Times
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Background checks on the 154 Chinese citizens aboard missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, including a Uighur passenger from the northwestern region of Xinjiang, had not turned up any evidence of their possible involvement in a hijack attempt, according to Beijing’s ambassador to Kuala Lumpur.
Huang Huikang’s comments, reported by China Central Television on Tuesday, came as Chinese authorities initiated a search of their own territory for the missing airliner. The “northern corridor” that Malaysian authorities said the aircraft may have flown along passes over the Chinese regions of Tibet and Xinjiang.
Flight MH370 went missing with 239 people on board on March 8, less than an hour into a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Two-thirds of passengers were Chinese.
When the jet was first reported missing, some comments circulated on Chinese social media networks about possible foul play by Uighur activists fighting for an independent homeland.
18/03/14 Tom Mitchell in Beijing and Jeremy Grant/Financial Times
