Malaysia Airlines plane bound for Beijing went missing

[twisti]

Flight MH370 bound for Beijing goes missing

SEPANG: Malaysia Airlines (MAS) confirms that flight MH370 is missing. MAS says Subang Air Traffic Control lost contact with the aircraft at 2.40am, Saturday.

In a statement issued by the airline, flight MH370, operated on the B777-200 aircraft, departed Kuala Lumpur at 12.41am on 8 March 2014. It was expected to land in Beijing at 6.30am the same day.

The flight was carrying 227 passengers (including 2 infants) and 12 crewmembers.

Malaysia Airlines is currently working with the authorities who have activated their Search and Rescue team to locate the aircraft.

Malaysian Airlines vice president of operations, Fuad Sharuji during an interview with CNN said that the aircraft should have run out of fuel by 8.30am Saturday morning as it only had seven hours of fuel on board.

In the interview with Anderson Cooper, Fuad explained that the flight which departed 41 minutes after midnight from Kuala Lumpur was supposed to have arrived in Beijing at 6.20am.

“However the plane carrying 239 passengers, of which 227 were passengers while 12 were crew members lost contact with the Subang Air Traffic Control at 2.40am.

“We have tried to track the flight down by getting in touch with nearby aircrafts and other radars along the route, but there is no luck as of now,” he said.

A report by CCTV news said 160 out of the 227 passengers were Chinese nationals and that China authorities are also in the process of searching for the missing flight.

MAS will provide regular updates on the situation.

The public may contact +603 7884 1234 for further information.

 

 

http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/03/08/Missing-plane-MAS/

 

Latest update is that Viet says the plane has crashed off vietnam waters. but MAS has not confirmed this.

[twisti]

Malaysia, Vietnam and China work to locate missing Malaysia Airlines plane

 

KUALA LUMPUR/BEIJING - Authorities in Malaysia. Vietnam and China are working together to locate a Malaysia Airlines (MAS) plane which lost contact with ground air control on Saturday while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

 

MAS Chief Executive Ahmad Jauhari Yahya told a news conference the last reported position of flight MH370 was approximately 120 nautical miles off Kota Bharu, in the South China Sea, in the airspace bordering Vietnam.

He said there was no bad weather report or distress call from the plane before it lost contact with ground air control.

The Boeing 777-200 was carrying 239 people from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it disappeared at 2.41 am local time on Saturday, about two hours after leaving Kuala Lumpur International Airport. It had been due to arrive in Beijing at 6.30am on the same.

 

12.40 am - Flight MH370, a Boeing 777-200 carrying 227 passengers from 14 nationalities along with 12 crew members, took off from the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur.

1.22 am - The plane was meant to transfer to Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh air traffic control but never appeared.

2.41 am - Malaysian air traffic control in Subang lost contact with the plane, some two hours after it left Kuala Lumpur.

6.30 am - The flight did not land in Beijing as scheduled.

7.24 am - MAS announced it had lost contact with the flight.

11.14 am - MAS held a news conference confirming the loss of contact with its aircraft. MAS CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said the last point of contact was about 120 nautical miles east of Kota Baru, in the South China Sea area in airspace bordering Vietnam.

1pm - Second MAS conference scheduled. Malaysia, Vietnam and China are working to locate missing plane

 

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[daffy]

Painful for the family...is this hope or longer mental torture...

Needs a miracle, hope it happens.

[twisti]

New info from Press Conference

 

 - Huge possibility that plane is hijacked 

 

- South China Sea operation stopped

 

- Plane last made contact at 8.11am on March 8

 

- 2 more new search boundaries opened (plane believed to fly towards Kazakhstan/Turkmenistan and south indo area based on latest verified data)

[keltanky]

Interesting....

[KSLim]

A friend told me the plane has caught a fire on board and pilot makes a quick turn to nearest airport which is Langkawi. Capt and co-pilot both knocked out by smoke and plane flies on auto pilot till no fuel and crash into South Indian Ocean. This seems most logical.

[Gareth]

If they know there is a fire they would have made a distress call. Apparently there isn't any.

[Odessus]

Good point.

[daffy]

My friend told me that pilots turn all navigation system off, prefer to use bamboo binoculars. Ended up at Maldives and all sun tanning at the beach, watching tv laughing at the whole world.

< on a serious note...hope it's hijack or some kind of conspiracy going on...at least they are still alive >

[Odessus]

It would be quite an amazing story if all the passengers on board are still alive.

[asiadj]

my friend also told mi... if its not in the sky still flying, then it may be on the ground, or at the sea. 

=)

[Odessus]

my friend also told mi... if its not in the sky still flying, then it may be on the ground, or at the sea.

=)

Your friend got vision.

[Jarebbsg]

 the 3 tonne mangosteen onboard as cargo as awesome !!!

[Merceman]

Something else more than meets the eye is in that plane, not just mangosteen. My friend's bomoh said one

[daffy]

Balala?

[twisti]

 Malaysia PM Najib Razak has just confirmed MH370 has crashed into Southern Indian Ocean with no survivors

 

Full text of Najib Razak's statement

 

This evening I was briefed by representatives from the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB). They informed me that Inmarsat, the UK company that provided the satellite data which indicated the northern and southern corridors, has been performing further calculations on the data. Using a type of analysis never before used in an investigation of this sort, they have been able to shed more light on MH370’s flight path.

Based on their new analysis, Inmarsat and the AAIB have concluded that MH370 flew along the southern corridor, and that its last position was in the middle of the Indian Ocean, west of Perth.

This is a remote location, far from any possible landing sites. It is therefore with deep sadness and regret that I must inform you that, according to this new data, flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean.

We will be holding a press conference tomorrow with further details. In the meantime, we wanted to inform you of this new development at the earliest opportunity. We share this information out of a commitment to openness and respect for the families, two principles which have guided this investigation.

Malaysia Airlines have already spoken to the families of the passengers and crew to inform them of this development. For them, the past few weeks have been heartbreaking; I know this news must be harder still. I urge the media to respect their privacy, and to allow them the space they need at this difficult time.

https://www.facebook.com/najibrazak/posts/10151954247230952?stream_ref=10

[level z]

God bless all the lost soul ...