Kuala Lumpur: A Malaysia Airlines (MAS) plane carrying 239 people, including 5 Indians that went missing after losing contact with Subang Air Traffic Control crashed into the sea 153 miles off the coast of Vietnam’s Tho Chu Island on Saturday.
Contrary to previous reports, Malaysia Airlines has confirmed that five Indian were also on the ill-fated plane. 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.
The B777-200 aircraft departed Kuala Lumpur at 12.41 am (1010 pm IST). It was expected to land in Beijing at 6:30 am. It lost touch with the ATC around 2:40 am (1210 am IST). Flight MH370 was operated on a Boeing B777-200 aircraft and was carrying 239 passengers including 12 crew members. Two infants are also said to be on board.
Malaysia Prime Minister’s wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor urged the countrymen to pray for the passengers on board the aircraft. She asked the Malaysians to pray so that the Flight MH370 can be found safely.
No signal had been picked up from the plane, Pham Hien, director of a Vietnam maritime search and rescue coordination centre in Vung Tau, told Reuters by telephone. China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency said the Flight MH370 lost contact and its radar signal as it was flying over the Ho Chi Minh air traffic control area in Vietnam.
Bureau Report
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