MALAYSIAN Airlines flight en route to China is missing.

[YouMakeMyDreams]

Re: In full: Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 passenger list



Video: Chilling moment Malaysian Airlines plane vanishes from live online flight tracker

Mar 08, 2014 16:32
By Steve Robson

Flight MH370 can be seen progressing towards the South China Sea before suddenly turning red and disappearing

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This sinister video shows the moment a Malaysian Airlines passenger jet carrying 239 people vanished from a live online flight tracker.

The footage, taken on a mobile phone, shows flight MH370 leaving Kuala Lumpur and heading towards Vietnam.

But midway over the South China Sea, the plane turns red and suddenly disappears.

It has not been seen or heard from since.

An international investigation is underway to try and locate the plane but so far no wreckage has been found.

Vietnamese Navy officials have reported spotting two large oil slicks and a column of smoke off the the coast of the country.

They have sent ships to the site and are hoping to have further information this evening.

The flight took off at 12.41am local time on Saturday from Kuala Lumpur and was due to land in Beijing at 6.05am the same day.

But air traffic controllers lost communication with the plane shortly after it left Malaysia.

Two of the passengers on board were travelling on stolen Italian and Austrian passports, it has emerged.

Luigi Maraldi and Christian Kozel were thought to have been on the the plane, but have since been reported safe and well.

Investigators are not ruling out any explanation for the missing flight.

The Boeing 777-200 jet's passengers on the 2,746-mile journey totalled 239, including two infants and 12 crew members.

There were 14 different nationalities on board.

Malaysian Airways confirmed the plane had lost contact with Subang Air Traffic Control at 2.40am (SAT) local time - or 6.40pm (FRI) around 120 miles off Kota Bharu over the South China Sea.

The airline said in a statement: "Malaysia Airlines is currently working with the authorities who have activated their Search and Rescue team to locate the aircraft.

"The airline will provide regular updates on the situation."

A weather map of the area where the plane was last reported did not show any storm activity.

Well-wishers and worried relatives left almost 4,000 comments on the airline's Facebook page.

Brian Hong wrote: "Let's pray for the safety of the passengers & crew members."

A website had earlier listed the flight as landed, but this was before the airline's statement.

The operator has said it will provide regular updates via its Facebook page.

"We deeply regret that we have lost all contacts with flight MH370," the airline's chief executive officer Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said in a statement on Facebook.

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

"Our team is currently calling the next-of-kin of passengers and crew."

The plane did not enter Chinese air space and is thought to have lost contact over Vietnam.

Officials say there were 160 Chinese nationals on board and state TV reported that China had dispatched two maritime rescue ships to the South China Sea to help the search effort.

 

[YouMakeMyDreams]

U.S. Destroyer Joins Hunt For Vanished Malaysia Airlines Flight

Sam Frizell 10:16 AM ET

A woman in tears is helped by airport workers to a bus waiting for relatives of the missing Malaysian airliner at the international airport in Beijing, China, March 8, 2014. Ng Han Guan—AP

The United States has sent a destroyer to aid the international search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which vanished early Saturday with 239 aboard

Update 1:23 p.m. EST

The United States dispatched a destroyer to join the massive international search for the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that went missing Saturday morning with 239 on board, as it appeared increasingly likely the plane had crashed into the ocean.

Air traffic controllers lost track of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 370 shortly after it left Kuala Lumpur en route to Beijing, carrying 239 passengers and crew, half of which were Chinese nationals. Vietnam’s military said a search team discovered a 12-mile long oil slick in the Gulf of Thailand that may be the downed Boeing 777, but there had been no official confirmation the plane had crashed as of Saturday night.

Search crews from China, Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia were joined by the American Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer destroyer in a search for any evidence of the airliner in the South China Sea. The passengers included 154 citizens from China or Taiwan, 38 Malaysians, seven Indonesians, six Australians, five Indians, four French and three Americans, among others.

“At this time, we can confirm that three U.S. citizens were on board,” said State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki. “Officials from the U.S. Embassies in Kuala Lumpur and Beijing are in contact with the individuals’ families. Out of respect for them, we are not providing additional information at this time.”

It emerged Saturday that two of the names on the flight manifest matched stolen European passports. Italian and Austrian officials confirmed the names of two passengers were from passports reported stolen in Thailand. U.S. officials told NBC News that they have not ruled out a terrorist attack as a possible cause for the plane’s disappearance.

The U.S. destroyer was conducting training and maritime security operations in international waters of the South China Sea, said the navy, and the ship has two MH-60R helicopters equipped for search and rescue. Vietnamese ships are expected to beat the destroyer to the scene.

The flight’s pilots were veterans who together had logged more than 20,000 flying hours, reports CNN. The plane was meant to touch down in Beijing at 6:30a.m. after a 2,300-mile trip. But the flight suddenly lost contact mid-flight, and search teams and experts have begun to lose hope passengers will be rescued.

“The aircraft had not been at altitude long and that strikes me as very, very odd,” aviation expert Captain J.F. Joseph, who has 44 years flying of experience, told TIME on Saturday. “It’s too early to say if there was a bomb or terrorist activity, but it lost contact just as it began to level off at 35,000 ft. It would give some indication that what occurred was catastrophic or somewhat instantaneous.”

With additional reporting by Zeke J. Miller

 

[steffychun]

Vietnamese ships are expected to beat the destroyer to the scene.

Is this a competition or what?

 

[tanwahtiu]

knn, talk about pay back CPF money to those @55 this Hen boh lumpar and jiak leow bee cannot fight for his voters, he makes no sound.

Hao lian send equipment to show off at tax payers expense. Anyway jiak leow bee SAF daft Sinikes go there for what? Holidays and fishings and watch FT do the search and rescue?

BREAKING NEWS!
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Singapore offers submarine vessel to search for missing MAS flight: Ng Eng Hen

Published on Mar 08, 2014, 11:55 PM

Singapore will be sending a submarine support-and-rescue vessel to help search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen said on Saturday night.

"We have this vessel which is equipped to perform underwater searches and can assist in these search-and-locate operations, and it also has divers on the vessel," he said.

Dr Ng said he had spoken to Malaysian Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein about the submarine vessel, and the Singaporean and Malaysian navy chiefs will work out details on its deployment.

The Republic of Singapore Air Force had earlier sent a C130 Hercules - a transport aircraft with search-and-locate functions - to help in the search. It took off at noon on Saturday, a Ministry of Defence spokesman said.

 

[steffychun]

knn, talk about pay back CPF money to those @55 this Hen boh lumpar and jiak leow bee cannot fight for his voters, he makes no sound.

Hao lian send equipment to show off at tax payers expense. Anyway jiak leow bee SAF daft Sinikes go there for what? Holidays and fishings and watch FT do the search and rescue?

Regulars or NSFs? Will the OT be compensated?

 

[GoldenPeriod]

knn, talk about pay back CPF money to those @55 this Hen boh lumpar and jiak leow bee cannot fight for his voters, he makes no sound.

Hao lian send equipment to show off at tax payers expense. Anyway jiak leow bee SAF daft Sinikes go there for what? Holidays and fishings and watch FT do the search and rescue?

NG ENG HEN is here to search for his precious FT.

 

[steffychun]

NG ENG HEN is here to search for his precious FT.

all of them are FT. Majority of the flight was PRC. Bet you the PRCs told him to quickly send or they wont give the PAP their table tennis players.

 

[tanwahtiu]

good points.

Send NSF cheap slavery there wont care a fuck of anything, just there to count how many days to ROD, when is their free entitlement breakfast, lunch and dinner and what' is on the menu? Lasi lemak, Chicken rice with drumsticks, mee goreng with sambal? and so on.

Regulars or NSFs? Will the OT be compensated?

 

[steffychun]

good points.

Send NSF cheap slavery there wont care a fuck of anything, just there to count how many days to ROD, when is their free entitlement breakfast, lunch and dinner and what' is on the menu? Lasi lemak, Chicken rice with drumsticks, mee goreng with sambal? and so on.

KF Seetoh did say RSN Ship food is the best...

As I said, send the paper generals as divers.

 

[tanwahtiu]

why no Sinkies on the crashed plane?

Simply put.

1. Older Sinkies @55 and over cannot withdraw their CPF kenna cheong by PAP. So many cannot travel and enjoy quality life style after 55.

2. No money, no travel and how to die in air crash?

http://www.smh.com.au/world/missing...rts-raise-terrorism-fears-20140309-hvgpg.html

2 angmohs in the air crash are over 50s got money to travel.

 

[Leongsam]

Re: why no Sinkies on the crashed plane?

Sinkies can afford to travel via SIA. They don't need to use m&d airlines.

 

[Leongsam]

As I said, send the paper generals as divers.

They excel in muff diving.

 

[steffychun]

Re: why no Sinkies on the crashed plane?

Sinkies can afford to travel via SIA. They don't need to use m&d airlines.

SIA is just as lousy.

 

[virus]

Re: why no Sinkies on the crashed plane?

eh.. becos singapore already got smog... why fly to somewhere which has more and pay for more when you can fly south get more and pay for less.

 

[tanwahtiu]

should be skiving, diving already give them face.

They excel in muff diving.

 

[Leongsam]

Re: why no Sinkies on the crashed plane?

SIA is just as lousy.

So sinkies are no better than m&ds?

 

[Jlokta]

They excel in muff diving.

I like your sense of humor.

 

[tanwahtiu]

Re: why no Sinkies on the crashed plane?

how to be better when m&ds dragged you down to their level?

So sinkies are no better than m&ds?

 

[tanwahtiu]

Re: why no Sinkies on the crashed plane?

sooner, you will not find many Sinkies die in road crashes in their own Sinkie roads but more FTs died on Sinkie roads.

Many unemployed Sinkies and jobs stolen from FTs where got money to buy car. No money no travel no Sinkies died in road accident or crash.

So sinkies are no better than m&ds?

 

[Papsmearer]

Re: why no Sinkies on the crashed plane?

There is something better than a sinkie on the flight. There is a malaysian FT studying in Singapore at SAJC since 15 years old on SIngapore Govt. scholarship. This breed is PAP preferred over local born sinkies.