On Saturday, a Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and
12 crew went missing over the South China Sea. Vietnamese Navy
confirmed that the plane crashed into the ocean at a location 153 miles
South of Phu Quoc Island. However, Malaysia’s transport minister,
Hishamuddin Hussein later denied any crash scene had been identified.
He insisted that the government was doing everything it could to
ensure that the Boeing 777-200ER flight, going from Kuala Lumpur to
Beijing, was found.
The plane disappeared without giving a distress signal, which
brings to mind an Air France flight that crashed into the South Atlantic
on June 1, 2009, killing all 228 people on board. It vanished for hours
without issuing a distress call.
Flight MH370, operating a Boeing 777-200ER aircraft, last had
contact with air traffic controllers 120 nautical miles off the east
coast of the Malaysian town of Kota Bharu, Malaysia Airlines chief
executive Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said.
Flight tracking website flightaware.com showed the plane flew
northeast over Malaysia after takeoff and climbed to an altitude of
35,000 feet. The flight vanished from the website’s tracking records a
minute later while it was still climbing.
A crash, if confirmed, would mark the U.S.-built Boeing 777-200ER
airliner’s deadliest incident since entering service 19 years ago.
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