NaijaPings BREAKING/DEVELOPING NEWS: MALAYSIAN AIRLINES BOEING 777 CARRYING 239 PEOPLE LOST OVER VIETNAM! - Flight MH370 declared missing 90 minutes after it was due to land. It was flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. - Jetliner feared crashed with four Americans, seven Australians among others on board after abrupt 650 ft plunge. Passengers and crew from France, Australia and China among the missing. - Crying relatives of Chinese passengers on board the plane wept at Beijing airport as it became clear the jet had probably crashed. As well as the American and Australian passengers, the aircraft was carrying 153 Chinese, 38 Malaysians, 12 Indonesians and 32 people from France. The aircraft had been due to land in Beijing at 6.30am local time but at 7.54am the airline issued a statement saying it had not landed and was officially missing. Malaysian Airlines said it would issue updates as soon as more information became available. The aircraft had enough fuel on board for a seven-hour flight and the airline said that given the time it has been missing it would have already run out of fuel. Fearing the worst, the airline has begun contacting relatives of the passengers warning them that the flight has not arrived and they should prepare themselves for bad news. The Boeing jet lost contact with Malaysian air traffic controllers a little over two hours into its flight. Reports from Chinas Xinhua news agency said later that the aircraft was lost in air space controlled by Vietnam and did not enter Chinese airspace or make any contact with Chinese controllers. Vietnam is heavily shrouded in forest and there were no immediate reports coming from that country of an aircraft crashing. Vietnamese authorites said they were investigating the aircrafts disappearance. Our team is currently calling the next of kin of passengers and crew, the airlines chief executive, Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, said as the airline issued a statement saying its thoughts and prayers were with all those on board as well as their families. Dis na NaijaPings.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 06:58:06 +0000
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