I read that the Austrian passenger is alive and well in Austria. His passport was stolen when he was staying in Thailand, which brings to question, who was on board?
http://www.apa.at/News/6217359958/boeing-mit-239-passagieren-vor-vietnam-verschollen.html
Boeing lost with 239 passengers off Vietnam
Twelve hours after the disappearance of an aircraft of Malaysia Airlines , the fate of the 239 people on board on Saturday afternoon remains uncertain . Aircraft sighted off the coast of Vietnam a mile-long oil slick , said Deputy Minister of Transport Pham Quy Tieu . An Austrian Republic on on the passenger list , has been reported in the interim. He is doing well.
The Foreign Ministry in Vienna was allowed to announce the good news. "He's doing fine , healthy and in Austria ," said spokesman Martin Weiss of the APA. The man was about two years ago in Thailand, the passport had been stolen .
The Boeing 777-200 was en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. About two-thirds of the passengers are Chinese. Vietnamese authorities spoke of a crash. The airline and the Malaysian Ministry of Transport confirmed initially only that they had no contact with the machine, even twelve hours following the disappearance of the flight by radar . There was , according to the airline no emergency , no bad weather and the pilot was an experienced man .
The spokesman for the National Salvation Forces in Vietnam, Pham Hoai Giang Lieutenant General , had the newspaper " VTC News" said: "I can confirm . The machine has crashed , it is not one missing " These reports would be examined , said the Malaysian Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein. Also , the airline remained cautious : " We are still not able to make contact or to say where flight MH370 is ," the airline said on afternoon (local time) .
The area of possible crash is reported to be about 150 kilometers off the island of Tho Chu off the southern tip of Vietnam , near the point where the machine was in when the radio contact demolitions . Ships and aircraft from China, Vietnam , Malaysia , Singapore and the Philippines participated in the search. The search had to be canceled but due to darkness . " The search operation in the sea continues with the dawn of daylight ," the airline said on evening .
The machine was started 0.41 clock local time ( 17:41 CET). On board were twelve crew members and 227 passengers from 14 countries. 153 passengers arrived , according to the airline from China. She has published in the evening the passenger list , after she had informed the relatives . Among the travelers were according to these data from Europe three French and one Dutch . An Italian, who had been like the
Austrians out apparently because of a stolen passport among the passengers , reported from Thailand with his family.
At the airports of Kuala Lumpur and Beijing horrified relatives were looked after by psychologists. In Beijing rage came over allegedly sluggish information of the airline. In Malaysia circulated on twitter photos to have made some passengers just before departure at the airport.
"In the region where the machine disappeared , was at the time no unusual weather conditions reported ," said Vietnam's Vice Minister of Transport . There had been no indication that the aircraft was in distress, said Malaysia Airlines boss Ahmad Jauhari Yahya in Kuala Lumpur. The pilot was an experienced colleague with more than 30 years of service.