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(CNN) -- A passenger flight carrying 239 people from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing is missing and would likely have run out of fuel, Malaysia Airlines said Saturday. "At the moment we have no idea where this aircraft is right now," Malaysia Airlines Vice President of Operations Control Fuad Sharuji said on CNN's "AC360." "We tried to call this aircraft through various means," he said. The airline checked reports that the jet had landed in several places, but determined that none of the reports was true, he said. The Boeing 777-200 departed Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 12:41 a.m. and was expected to land in Beijing at 6:30 a.m., a 2,300-mile (3,700 kilometer) trip. It was carrying 227 passengers, two of them infants, and 12 crew members, the airline said. At the time of its disappearance, the plane was carrying about 7.5 hours of fuel, Sharuji said. The passengers are of 13 nationalities, the airline said. They were from China and Taiwan (154), Malaysia (38), Indonesia (12), Australia (7), France (3), United States (4), New Zealand (2), Ukraine (2), Canada (2), Russia (1), Italy (1), Netherlands (1), Austria (1). One infant from the United States and another from China were included in the tally. By CNN's math, that adds up to 228 passengers, one more than the total cited by the airline. There was no immediate explanation offered. "Malaysia Airlines is currently working with the authorities who have activated their Search and Rescue team to locate the aircraft," the statement said. The public can call +603 7884 1234 for further information. Efforts to contact the plane were fruitless. "We deeply regret that we have lost all contacts" with the jet, said CEO Ahmad Juahari Yahya in a statement. The airline said in a statement that its representatives were contacting the relatives of those aboard. "Focus of the airline is to work with the emergency responders and authorities and mobilize its full support," it said. China's state-run Xinhua News Agency said the flight lost contact and its radar signal as it was flying over the Ho Chi Minh air traffic control area in Vietnam. Xinhua also reported that Chinese aviation authorities had confirmed that 160 Chinese nationals were aboard the plane, which was lost from radar in airspace controlled by Vietnam. China's embassy in Malaysia has formed an emergency team headed by the Chinese ambassador to deal with the incident, it said. "We're closely monitoring reports on Malaysia flight MH370," Boeing said in a tweet. "Our thoughts are with everyone on board." "It doesn't sound very good," retired American Airlines Capt. Jim Tilmon told CNN's "AC360." He noted that the route is mostly overland, which means that there would be plenty of antennae, radar and radios to contact the plane. "I've been trying to come up with every scenario that I could just to explain this away, but I haven't been very successful." He said the plane is "about as sophisticated as any commercial airplane could possibly be," with an excellent safety record. "The lack of communications suggests to me that something most unfortunate has happened," said Mary Schiavo, former inspector general of the U.S. Department of Transportation, in an interview with CNN International. "But that, of course, does not mean that there are not many persons that need to be rescued and secured. There's still a very urgent need to find that plane and to render aid." There is one recent blemish for the Boeing jet: An Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 carrying 291 passengers struck a seawall at San Francisco International Airport in July 2013, killing three people and wounding dozens more. Malaysia Airlines operates in Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East and on the route between Europe and Australasia. It has 15 of the Boeing 777-200 planes in its fleet, CNN's Richard Quest reported. Part of the company is in the private sector, but the government owns most of it. Malayan Airways Limited began flying in 1937 as an air service between Penang and Singapore. A decade later, it began flying commercially as the national airline. In 1963, when Malaysia was formed, the airline was renamed Malaysian Airlines Limited. Within 20 years, it had grown from a single aircraft operator into a company with 2,400 employees and a fleet operator.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/07/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane-missing/ Route is mostly over the ground, the Pilot has experience of flying 18000+ hrs, the Airline has a good safety record, how things go horribly wrong when they do. :((
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1. China / Taiwan – 152, 1 infant / 1 2. Malaysia - 38 3. Indonesia - 7 4. Australia - 6 5. France - 3 6. United States of America – 3 pax plus 1 infant 7. New Zealand - 2 8. Ukraine - 2 9. Canada - 2 10. Russia - 1 11. Italy - 1 12. India - 5 13. Netherlands - 1 14. Austria - 1
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Earlier they said they were no Indians on Board...
Malaysia Airlines said people from 14 nationalities were among the 227 passengers, including at least 152 Chinese, 38 Malaysians, 12 Indonesians, six Australians and three Americans. It also said a Chinese infant and an American infant were on board. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Malaysia-Airlines-plane-with-239-aboard-crashes-into-South-China-Sea-Report/articleshow/31656301.cms
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Extremely sad news. Malaysian Airlines used to be considered one of the safest in the world and Boeing-777 had almost unblemished record (there was a minor incident last year in san-fransisco involving 777 but that was more to do with mistake by pilot at the time of landing. I am just wondering what possibly could have happened there. Plane was in cruise mode, 2 years after take off, weather hasn't been reported to be rough, fuel for 7-8 hours of flight was available in craft. There were no distress signals received either. It is biggest air-crash since the one happened with Air-France in 2008 off Brazilian coast. However in that case, flight was crossing Atlantic with vast blind zone with no connectivity and weather was said to be pretty rough. But in this case none of these factors are present. Hopefully black-box would be recovered and there would be some clarity on the possible reasons.

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