Kuala Lumpur: A Malaysia Airlines (MAS) plane flying from here to Beijing has been missing for more than 12 hours without any hint of where it is.
Flight MH370 took off from the KL International Airport at 12.41 am today and was scheduled to land in Beijing at 6.30am (Beijing time) but lost contact with the Subang air traffic control at 2.40am when it was in airspace over the South China Sea between Malaysia and Vietnam.
The Boeing 777-200 was carrying 227 passengers of 14 nationalities and 12 crew when it disappeared. Malaysian and Vietnamese search-and-rescue teams are scouring the area of the South China Sea where the signal from the plane was last received by radar.
China has also sent vessels to help in the search. Soon after the plane was reported missing, there was a report that it had made an emergency landing in Nanming, China, but Chinese authorities said afterwards that the plane had never entered China's airspace at all.
MAS Group CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya told a news conference that the last signal detected from Flight MH370 was at a point 120 nautical miles east of Kota Baharu over the South China Sea, and there had been no indication of distress from the plane.
Ahmad Jauhari said 153 of the passengers were from China, seven Indonesia, seven Australia, five India, three each from France and the United States, two each from New Zealand, Ukraine and Canada and one each from Russia, Italy, Taiwan, the Netherlands and Austria.
08/03/14 The Sun Daily
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Flight MH370 took off from the KL International Airport at 12.41 am today and was scheduled to land in Beijing at 6.30am (Beijing time) but lost contact with the Subang air traffic control at 2.40am when it was in airspace over the South China Sea between Malaysia and Vietnam.
The Boeing 777-200 was carrying 227 passengers of 14 nationalities and 12 crew when it disappeared. Malaysian and Vietnamese search-and-rescue teams are scouring the area of the South China Sea where the signal from the plane was last received by radar.
China has also sent vessels to help in the search. Soon after the plane was reported missing, there was a report that it had made an emergency landing in Nanming, China, but Chinese authorities said afterwards that the plane had never entered China's airspace at all.
MAS Group CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya told a news conference that the last signal detected from Flight MH370 was at a point 120 nautical miles east of Kota Baharu over the South China Sea, and there had been no indication of distress from the plane.
Ahmad Jauhari said 153 of the passengers were from China, seven Indonesia, seven Australia, five India, three each from France and the United States, two each from New Zealand, Ukraine and Canada and one each from Russia, Italy, Taiwan, the Netherlands and Austria.
08/03/14 The Sun Daily
