MALAYSIA AIR CRASH LATEST. NaijaPings UPDATE: FURTHER UPDATES ON THE Malaysia Airlines plane crash. What is clear so far is that a plane carrying 239 people has crashed into the sea off the coast of Vietnam. The aircraft, a Boeing 777-200, had taken off from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur and was due to land in Beijing, China when it lost contact with air traffic control. The plane crashed into the sea 153 miles off the coast of Vietnam’s Tho Chu island on Saturday, according to a Vietnamese navy officer quoted by state media. At the moment there are no Vietnamese navy boats in that area so we have to ask boats from Phu Quoc island to be prepared for rescue, Admiral Ngo Van Phat told the website of Tuoi Tre news. Tho Chu and Phu Quoc lie to the southwest of southern Vietnam. It was not immediately clear how he knew where the plane had crashed or whether wreckage had been spotted. The plane last had contact with air traffic controllers 120 nautical miles off the east coast of the Malaysian town of Kota Bharu, the airline said. We know the plane was carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew. The pilot is Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, a Malaysian national aged 53. He joined Malaysia Airlines in 1981 and has 18,365 flying hours. The first officer is fellow Malaysian Fariq Ab. Hamid, 27. He joined the airline in 2007 and has 2,763 flying hours. Here is a breakdown of the nationalities of the passengers on board the missing plane: China: 153 Malaysia: 38 Indonesia: 12 Australia: 6 US: 4 France: 3 New Zealand: 2 Ukraine: 2 Canada: 2 Italy, Taiwan, Netherlands, Russia, Austria: 1 each. Dis na NaijaPings.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 07:48:29 +0000
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