Missing Malaysia Plane Terror In Sky

Deborah DupreHuman Rights Examiner

March 8, 2014

U.S. officials told NBC News on Saturday they are investigating terrorism concerns after two people listed as passengers on a missing Malaysia Airlines jet were reportedly not to on the plane and reported their passports had been stolen – one a year ago and the other two years ago.

Terror in the sky probed due to stolen passports of listed passengers on missing plane
Luigi Maraldi, 37, was the only Italian on a passenger manifest released by the airline after the Malaysia Flight MH370 jet disappeared over the South China Sea. His father, Walter Maraldi, however told NBC News from Cesena, Italy: “Luigi called us early this morning to reassure us he was fine, but we didn’t know about the accident. Thank God he heard about it before us.”

Luigi Maraldi is vacationing in Thailand, according to his father, who said his son told him that his passport was stolen one year ago.

Austria's foreign ministry confirmed to NBC News that police made contact with another citizen on the passenger list, who reported his passport stolen two years ago while traveling in Asia.

Malaysia airlines said in a statement early Saturday they are attempting to locate the Boeing 777 after it lost contact with Subang Air Traffic Control at 2:40 a.m.

There was no distress signal before the plane, with 239 passengers, went down.

One report said seven people on board had stolen passports, while others report that two people had stolen passports.

Vietnamese Navy confirmed Saturday that Malaysia Flight MH370, from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing, crashed into the sea off  Tho Chu island.

Tuoi Tre quoted Navy Admiral Ngo Van Phat, Commander of Region 5, as saying that military radar reported that the plane crashed into the sea at a location 246km south of Phu Quoc island.

“The plane lost contact in Ca Mau province airspace before it had entered contact with Ho Chi Minh City air traffic control,” a statement posted on the official Vietnamese government website said.

The plane was meant to transfer to Ho Chi Minh City air traffic control at 1.22am Malaysian time, but never appeared, a statement reported by AFP said, citing a senior Ministry of Defence official.

The Ministry of Defence launched rescue efforts to find the plane, coordinating work with Malaysian and Chinese officials.

The missing Malaysian Airlines flight was carrying 152 Chinese, 38 Malaysians, 12 Indonesians, and three American among other nationalities, seven with stolen passports, according to latest reports.

The aircraft had left Kuala Lumpur at 12.41am and was scheduled to land in Beijing at 6.30am.

CNN and other outlets are reporting "several of the 239 people on board the missing commercial Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 were using stolen passports of citizens from Austria and Italy.

Others reported as seven people on board had stolen passports.

Italian foreign ministry says no Italian was on missing Malaysia flight, despite one Italian listed among passengers.

Austrian foreign ministry says an Austrian citizen reported to be on Malaysian flight is safe in Austria.
Four Americans are among the 239 passengers and crew aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight.
The search for the commercial jetliner that seemingly vanished with no warning between Malaysia and Vietnam have continued, officials say

While nobody knows what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, it is now suspected that terrorism is involved.

Air traffic controllers lost track of soon after it left Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur on its way to Beijing.
Families and loved ones of the 239 passengers and crew aboard expected the worst as they await significant development.

Last night, those family members and loved ones in Beiging were not at the airport waiting. Only press and reporters were there. They were then moved to a hotel for a press conference.

The area of search is focusing in the South China Sea, where Malaysian airspace and Vietnamese airspace meet.

Later Saturday morning, Vietnamese authorities found a 12-mile long oil slick in the Gulf of Thailand, the first sign that Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 may have crashed.

Bits and pieces of information continue to emerge, such as stolen passports, but it remains unclear how they fit into the bigger picture of the missing plane.

Stolen passports spark terrorism fears

Two passengers on board the missing Malaysian Airlines Boeing plane may have been carrying stolen passports, it has been reported. Nine News.

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Malaysian officials have confirmed an oil slick has been sighted in Vietnamese waters and said Vietnamese ships were at the site investigating whether it was from the plane.

Feared dead: Queensland couple Catherine and Robert Lawton. Photo: Facebok

Investigators checking the identities of all the 227 passengers on the flight, particularly those who bought tickets through China Southern Airlines, which is a code share partner with Malaysia Airlines.

As well as the two passengers who appear to have been travelling on stolen passports, suspicions have been raised about two other passengers, Reuters quoted a security official in Kuala Lumpur as saying.
Malaysian media reported they were recorded in the flight manifest as European passengers.

Brisbane couple Rodney and Mary Burrows.

Six nations are now desperately searching for the aircraft, which was  carrying 239 people, including six Australians.. Amid the questions about the weather, mechanical failure or human error, the discovery that two passengers were flying on stolen passports has sparked fears that foul play may well be the answer.

Italian Luigi Maraldi, 37, was on holiday in Thailand and immediately phoned home after seeing on the news that an Italian with his name was on the vanished airliner - and before his father had seen the news.
His passport, as well as that of Austrian national Christian Kozel, had been stolen while in Thailand.

Chinese police in front of the arrival board showing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 (top-red) at Beijing Airport. Photo: AFP

While there was no information pointing to a possible bomb or terror attack, Malaysia is studying all possibilities, Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein told reporters.

The stolen Austrian passport belonged to 30-year-old Christian Kozel, who reported the theft in 2012 in Phuket, Thailand. He was contacted and found to be ''well,'' said Martin Weiss, a foreign ministry spokesman said.

Mr Maraldi, an Italian national also shown on the manifest, had reported his passport stolen last August, according to Italian media.

Malaysia Airlines, meanwhile, has advised immediate family members of those on the flight to gather at Kuala Lumpur International Airport; the airline stated it would pay for travel arrangements and expenses.
Last contact

Mumbling and static were heard from the cockpit of missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 before connection was lost, according to a pilot who was flying another plane in the area.

"There was a lot of interference … static … but I heard mumbling from the other end," said the pilot who was asked to make contact with flight 370 by Vietnamese air traffic control.

"That was the last time we heard from them, as we lost connection," he said.

The pilot, who asked not to be named, told Malaysia's New Sunday Times newspaper said he established contact with flight 370 as he was flying a Boeing 777 to Narita, Japan.

His plane was 30 minutes ahead of the missing plane.

The pilot said he thought nothing of losing contact, as it was not an unusual, until it was confirmed that flight 370 never landed.

"If the plane was in trouble, we would have heard the pilot making the mayday distress call. But I am sure that, like me, no one else up there heard it," he said.

"Following the silence, a repeat request was made by the Vietnamese authorities to retry establishing contact with them."

The pilot said the voice he heard may have been either Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 53, or co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid, 27.

"But I am sure it was the co-pilot," he said.

Missing Australians
A Queensland couple who wanted to spend more time travelling in their older age were two of the six Australian passengers on board the missing Malaysia Airlines flight.

The Boeing 777 aircraft, carrying 239 people, vanished while flying across the ocean between Malaysia and Vietnam early Saturday morning.

Neighbours said Catherine and Robert Lawton, aged 53 and 57, had already been on a trip to Asia and were "looking to see a bit of the world" now their three daughters had moved out.

Springfield Lakes resident Robbie Daintith, who lives across the road from the couple and would often put their bins out when they travelled, said they were "lovely people" who adored their young grandchildren.
"We knew from talking to them that they were planning to go away for a period of time again. They did a similar trip this time last year," Mr Daintith said.

"They were lovely people who always said hello, were always happy to have a chat and always offering to help out in any way they could."

He said Ms Lawton didn't work because of a visual impairment but her husband was employed.

The pair is understood to have been travelling on the flight with Brisbane couple Rodney and Mary Burrows.
Mr Burrows was a long-time employee with Energex, one of the largest energy companies in Queensland. It is believed he took a redundancy package two years ago.

Two other Australians on board the flight have been identified as NSW couple Yuan Li, 32, and Naijun Gu, 31.

Yuan LI and Naijun Gu are listed as company director and secretary of Y & J Australia PTY Ltd, respectively.

It believed Li was born in Beijing and Gu in Shanghai.

However, while their address is listed for a terrace in a residential complex in Koorooma Place, Sylvania, little else is known about them.

Neighbours said the couple bought the terrace in 2009 but were unsure if they actually lived there or simply owned the property and were renting it out to other people.

The terrace was put up for auction and sold just before Christmas.

"They might have owned the place but I doubt they ever lived there," a neighbour said. "They were a bit reclusive."

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Paul Weeks, who had been living in Perth, is one of two missing New Zealander passengers. He was en route to a new job in Mongolia.

New Zealand media is reporting the father of two left Christchurch in search of a better life and for his family after the city's devastating earthquakes.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has released a statement saying it "fears the worst" for the Australian passengers.

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade spokeswoman Kerin Ayyalaraju said Australian consular officials were in "urgent and ongoing contact" with Malaysia Airlines, and were speaking with distraught family members in Australia and offering "all possible consular assistance".

Plane vanished
Malaysian aviation authorities said Sunday morning there has been no confirmed sighting of the plane.
"We have not been able to locate anything. We have not been able to see anything," said Azhaddin Abdul Rahman, deputy chief of aviation.

There were no reports of distress calls, emergency-beacon signals or bad weather and no indications why a plane would lose touch in one of the safest phases of flight.Vietnamese air force planes have spotted two large oil slicks off the southern tip of Vietnam which may be from the missing Malaysian jetliner that was carrying 239 people, including six Australians.

''I think the two oil slicks are very likely linked to the missing plane,'' said Vice-Admiral Ngo Van Phat, who is helping to direct the search mission.

''However, we have to check carefully once our rescue boats get access to the area.''

The plane vanished somewhere off Vietnam's Tho Chu Island, northwest off the country's southernmost Cape Ca Mau. The airline lost contact with the aircraft after it departed Kuala Lumpur.

It was expected to land in Beijing at 6.30am carrying 239 people, including two infants and 12 crew members.

Passengers included 152 Chinese people, 38 Malaysians, 12 Indonesians, three Americans and two Canadians. There were also passengers from New Zealand, Italy, France, Ukraine, Russia, Netherlands, Austria and Taiwan.

If all passengers are found dead, it will be the world's worst air tragedy in a decade.

A 20-kilometre long oil slick spotted between Malaysia and Vietnam was thought to be the first sign that the plane went down in the waters between southernmost Vietnam and northern Malaysia, according to Vietnam's director of civil aviation.

"An AN26 aircraft of the Vietnam Navy has discovered an oil slick about 20 kilometers in the search area, which is suspected of being a crashed Boeing aircraft - we have announced that information to Singapore and Malaysia and we continue the search," Lai Xuan Thanh, the director of the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam, told the New York Times in reporting the sighting of the slick.

Mr Thanh said the oil on the surface on the water was somewhat closer to Vietnam than Malaysia at the mouth of the shallow Gulf of Thailand.

Australian response
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau said they were monitoring the situtation closely.

"We have not yet had any request for assistance from our oveases counterparts, " spokesman Bob Armstrong said .

If the flight crashed in international waters, the investigation will be the responsibility of the Malaysia's civil aiviation aircraft agency, he said.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott would not speculate whether terrorism was involved in the crash.
"This is obviously a horrible, horrible business and our thoughts and prayers are with passengers and their families on that ill fated aircraft, particuraly to the six Australian passenger and their families that have now been confirmed to be on board," he told reporters in Adelaide.

"We're now looking for ways that we can help with search and recovery operation."

Opposition leader Bill Shorten offered his sympathies to the families of loved ones on the missing flight. "I believe the Australian nations' thoughts go out to the families of those Australians and New Zealanders on this plane and indeed the families of everyone," Mr Shorten told reporters in Melbourne.

The search efforts
The missing plane has sparked a multinational response.

Malaysia's prime minister, Najib Razak, said in a statement that 15 aircraft and nine ships were searching for the missing plane. Without saying where his government suspected that the plane might have disappeared, he added, "Our priority now is to widen the search area and provide support to relatives of those missing."
The airline released its seventh press release about the on-going mystery early Sunday afternoon,  stating that its search and rescue teams have been unable to detect the whereabouts of the aircraft.

''The airline is doing its utmost to provide support to the affected family members, this includes immediate financial aid,'' the statement said.

The airline has deployed a team of 94 'caregivers' to assist the family of missing passengers and crew; more support staff will be sent to Beijing, where the plane was to land, later today.

A command centre will be established in either Kota Bharu, Malaysia or Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, as soon as the aircraft is located. ''The airline is continuously working with the authorities in providing assistance. In fearing for the worst, a disaster recovery management specialist from Atlanta, USA will be assisting Malaysia Airlines in this crucial time.''

The United States Seventh Fleet said in a Twitter message that it was sending a destroyer, the USS Pinckney, and a P-3C maritime surveillance aircraft to join the search for Flight MH370.

The US's Federal Bureau of Investigation will join the international hunt for the aircraft and its passengers.
A Texas business, Freescale Semiconductor, has confirmed that 20 of its employees were on the flight.
China has also sent two maritime rescue ships to the South China Sea to help in any rescue, state television said on one of its microblogs.

The aircraft's pilot was Zaharie Ahmad Shah, a 53-year-old Malaysian captain, who has flown more than 18,000 hours. The first officer was Fariq Ab Hamid, 27, also of Malaysia, who has flown more than 2700 hours.

Malaysia Airlines initially reported seven Australians were on board, but the number was quickly revised to six.

On Saturday afternoon, the airline said it had been successful in contacting about 80 per cent of passengers' families.

Vietnam's official website said the plane disappeared in Vietnam's airspace.

"The plane lost contact in Ca Mau province airspace before it had entered contact with Ho Chi Minh City air traffic control," a statement posted on the website said.

Conflicting reports surfaced on Saturday afternoon over claims in Vietnamese and Chinese media that the missing plane's signal had been detected in the middle of the ocean.

Vienamese news site VN Express had quoted Pham The Hien, director of the country's search and rescue co-ordination centre, saying a signal was detected 230 kilometres south-west of Cape Ca Mau. But he later said those reports had been inaccurate, and his team was continuing to look for the missing plane's signal.
Distraught families in Beijing

With the arrivals board at Beijing's international airport still showing the Malaysian Airlines flight was delayed, distraught family members were being shepherded by police and airport staff to a nearby hotel to await further information.

One woman, Zhai Le, said her friend was on board the flight.

"They keep saying there's no information," she said through tears.

Another man, who declined to be named, said he had been waiting for his boss, a French national, when he heard the news.

An unconfirmed report from a flight tracking website said the plane had plunged more than 200 metres and changed course in the last minute that it had transmitted data.

Chinese authorities have reportedly said the flight never entered Chinese airspace.

"It doesn't sound very good," retired American Airlines captain Jim Tilmon told CNN on Saturday.
He said that the route was mostly overland, which meant that there would be plenty of radars and radios to contact the plane.

"I've been trying to come up with every scenario that I could just to explain this, but I haven't been very successful."

He said the plane was "about as sophisticated as any commercial airplane could possibly be".

Uncertainty over timing
Malaysia Airlines denied reports circulating on the internet the plane had landed safely in Nanjing China.
One uncertainty about the flight involved when it disappeared from radar and how quickly the search began in the Gulf of Thailand. Malaysia Airlines said that the plane took off at 12.41 am Malaysia time, and that the plane disappeared from air traffic control radar in Subang, a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, at 2.40 am.

That timeline seemed to suggest that the plane stayed in the air for two hours — long enough to fly not only across the Gulf of Thailand but also far north across Vietnam. But Mr Lindahl of Flightradar 24 said that the last radar contact had been at 1.19am, less than 40 minutes after the flight began.

A Malaysia Airlines spokesman said on Saturday evening that the last conversation between the flight crew and air traffic control in Malaysia had been around 1.30 am, but he reiterated that the plane had not disappeared from air traffic control systems in Subang until 2.40am.

Fuad Sharuji, from Malaysia Airlines' operation control centre, said the pilots made no distress call.
The missing plane is believed to have been involved in a crash in August, 2012, when it damaged the tail of a China Eastern Airlines plane at Shanghai Pudong Airport, according to unconfirmed reports.

In the incident, the tip of the wing of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 broke off.

Malaysia Airlines said its "thoughts and prayers" were with all the passengers on board the missing plane, and their families.

"[The] focus of the airline is to work with the emergency responders and authorities and mobilise its full support," chief executive Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said.

Malaysia Airlines is the national carrier of Malaysia and one of Asia's largest, flying nearly 37,000 passengers daily to some 80 destinations worldwide.

The airline said the public can call +60-378841234 for information about the plane.

There were no storms in the area of the South China Sea where the plane was flying across. The weather was generally fine with light clouds.

Malaysia Airlines' vice president of operations told CNN that no distress call or problems were reported from the aircraft prior to its disappearance. The plane was reportedly flying at 35,000 feet at the time.

"We are extremely worried," Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told reporters in Beijing. "The news is very disturbing. We hope everyone on the plane is safe."

The plane had enough fuel to fly for seven hours, one hour more than the flight time to Beijing.

Boeing said in a statement that it was assembling a team of technical experts to advise the national authorities investigating the disappearance of the aircraft.

With agencies

Bila Kapal Terbang Tiba-Tiba Terhempas

Pernah tak sesiapa mengalami pengalaman kapal terbang terjatuh 10-20 meter semasa penerbangan. Ini biasanya terjadi kalau cuaca buruk kan. Alhamdulillah buat masa ini belaum ada pengalaman keadaan yang macam ni.. Kalau kena perangkap udara sikit-sikit tu biasakan.  Di sini ada beberapa gambar yang agak kelam-kabut bila keadaan ni berlaku..

Penerbangan dari Singapura ke London tiba-tiba jatuh 20 meter selepas sarapan pagi disediakan, yang menyebabkan keadaan huru-hara di atas kapal.

  Kabin krew diminta untuk kembali ke tempat duduk masing-masing

  Hidangan berselerakan di lantai 

Coffee berselerakan di atas siling 

Dah Selamat: Penumpang telah diberikan coklat mewah semasa pendaratan, penawar yang sempurna untuk keadaan huru hara dalam penerbangan.

PESAWAT MAS MH 370 TERHEMPAS DI LAUT CHINA SELATAN

Tentera laut Vietnam mengesahkan pesawat Malaysia Airlines penerbangan MH370 yang dilaporkan hilang dalam penerbangan dari Kuala Lumpur ke Beijing awal hari ini terhempas ke Laut China Selatan, lapor akhbar utama Vietnam seperti dipetik oleh Yahoo News.

Laksamana Tentera Laut Vietnam, Ngo Van Phat dipetik oleh akhbar Tuoi Tre berkata radar tentera merakamkan pesawat itu terhempas ke dalam laut 246 kilometer ke selatan Pulau Phu Quoc.

Sementara itu, satu laporan lain menyebut tentera laut China telah mengerahkan dua kapal penyelamatnya ke Laut China Selatan untuk membantu operasi menyelamat. 

Laporan ini sekaligus menamatkan spekulasi sebelum ini kononnya pesawat Boeing 777-200 itu membuat pendaratan cemas di Wilayah Nanning di selatan China. 

Agensi berita Xinhua sebelum ini melaporkan pesawat berkenaan tidak memasuki ruang udara China dan tidak membuat sebarang hubungan dengan pusat kawalan trafik negara itu.

 

HANOI (Reuters) - A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew 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.
The admiral could not be reached by telephone. 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.
(Reporting by Nguyen Phuong Linh; Writing by Martin Petty; Editing by Nick Macfie)

Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 carrying 239 people — including two Canadians — crashed in the South China Sea: official

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A possible relative cries at the Beijing Airport after news of the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 plane in Beijing on March 8, 2014. Malaysia Airlines said a flight carrying 239 people from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing went missing early on March 8, and the airline was notifying next of kin in a sign it expected the worst. AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTONMARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images

A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew crashed in the South China Sea on Saturday, Vietnamese state media said, quoting a senior naval official.

The Boeing 777-200ER flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing had been missing for hours when Vietnam’s Tuoi Tre news quoted Admiral Ngo Van Phat as saying he had asked boats from an island off south Vietnam to rush to the crash site.

If the report is confirmed, it would mark the U.S.-built airliner’s deadliest crash since entering service 19 years ago.

Malaysia Airlines had yet to confirm that the aircraft had crashed. It said earlier in the day that no distress signal had been given and cited early speculation that the plane may have landed in Nanming in southern China.

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 in a statement read to a news conference in Kuala Lumpur.

Malaysia and Vietnam were conducting a joint search and rescue, he said but gave no details. China has also sent two maritime rescue ships to the South China Sea to help in any rescue, state television said on one of its microblogs.

“We are extremely worried,” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told reporters in Beijing before the Vietnamese report that the plane had crashed. “The news is very disturbing. We hope everyone on the plane is safe.”

The flight left Kuala Lumpur at 12.21 a.m. (1621 GMT Friday) but no trace had been found of the plane hours after it was due to land in the Chinese capital at 6.30 a.m. (2230 GMT Friday) the same day.

AP Photo/Ng Han GuanA Malaysian man who says he has relatives on board the missing Malaysian Airlines plane, talks to journalists at Beijing's International Airport Beijing, China, Saturday, March 8, 2014. 

“We deeply regret that we have lost all contacts with flight MH370,” Jauhari said.

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.
If it is confirmed that the plane has crashed, the loss would mark the second fatal accident involving a Boeing 777 in less than a year and by far the worst since the jet entered service in 1995.
An Asiana Airlines Boeing 777-200ER crash-landed in San Francisco in July 2013, killing three passengers and injuring more than 180.
Boeing said it was aware of reports that the Malaysia Airlines plane was missing and was monitoring the situation but had no further comment. The flight was operating as a China Southern Airlines codeshare.
An official at the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) said the plane had failed to check in as scheduled at 1721 GMT while it was flying over the sea between Malaysia and Ho Chi Minh city.

AP Photo/Lai Seng SinMalaysian Airlines Group Chief Executive Ahmad Jauhari Yahyain, front, speaks during a press conference at a hotel in Sepang, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Saturday, March 8, 2014.

AP Photo/Kyodo NewsThis photo taken in April, 2013, shows a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER at Narita Airport in Narita, near Tokyo. A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 carrying 239 people lost contact with air traffic control early Saturday morning, March 8, 2014 on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, and international aviation authorities still hadn't located the jetliner several hours later.

MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty ImagesA possible relative cries at the Beijing Airport after news of the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 plane in Beijing on March 8, 2014. Malaysia Airlines said a flight carrying 239 people from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing went missing early on March 8, and the airline was notifying next of kin in a sign it expected the worst.

AP Photo/Ng Han GuanThe arrival board at the International Airport in Beijing, China shows a Malaysian airliner is delayed, Saturday, March 8, 2014.

AP Photo/Lai Seng SinPassengers walk past a signboard of Malaysia Airlines at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Saturday, March 8, 2014.

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UPDATE [2:36pm]: Malaysian Transport Minister Hishamuddin Hussein denies reports that signal from aircraft has been received in the south of Vietnam. He says the government has no information of any wreckage at the moment, but 'are looking at all possibilities'.

The Malaysian government has dispatched a plane, two helicopters and four vessels to search seas off its east coast in the South China Sea. The Philippines also sends three navy patrol boats and a surveillance plane.

AFP, in its live report, has several airline safety experts speaking about Malaysia Airlines' safety record.
Malaysia Airlines says all other flights will proceed as usual, for now.

Crash Location

UPDATE [2:13pm]: MH370 has been removed from the arrivals board at the Beijing airport. Local media report that the passengers included 24 Chinese artists on their way back from an art exhibition in Malaysia.

UPDATE [2:06pm]: Members of the media have been barred from entering a special holding area for families of passegers and crew of flight MH370 at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Meanwhile, politician Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin is being slammed for an insensitive tweet about a 'new Bermuda triangle'.

UPDATE [12:37]: Tuoi Tre, a leading daily in Vietnam, reports that the Vietnamese Navy has confirmed the plane crashed into the ocean.  According to Navy Admiral Ngo Van Phat, Commander of the Region 5, military radar recorded that the plane crashed into the sea at a location 153 miles South of Phu Quoc island. Full story here.

When contacted, Malaysia Airlines declined to confirm or deny the reports, saying that the Malaysian authorities are working together with the Vietnamese government on the matter.

Meanwhile, Al Jazeera reports that China has dispatched two maritime rescue ships to help locate the missing plane.

Senarai Nama Anak Kapal Dan Penumpang MH 370.

SEBAHAGIAN NAMA POB

Senarai penumpang MH370

KUALA LUMPUR 8 Mac – Berikut sebahagian daripada senarai penumpang yang berada dalam pesawat MH370 yang gagal dikesan sehingga 1.40 petang ini:
Fariq Ab. Hamid
Zaharie Ahmad Shah
Foong Wai Yueng
Goh Sock Lay
Gomes Patrick Francis
Mohd. Hazrin Mohamed Hasnan
Junaidi Mohd. Kassim
Andrew Nari
Ng Yar Chien
Tan Ser Kuin
Tan Size Hiang
Wan Syaid Wan Ismail
Anne Catherine Daisy (MYS)
Bai Xiaow (CAN)
Beherey Usage Waitrelos Laurence Arlet (FRA)
Biby Nazli Mohd. Hassim (MYS)
Brooskii Nikolath (RUS)
Burrows Rooney (AUS)
Chan Huan Peen (MYS)
Chen Weihoing (MYS)
Chew Kar Mooi (MYS)
Chng Mei Ling (MYS)
Chuang Hsiu Ling ((TWN)
Chustrak Oleg (UKR)
Deineka Sergii (UKR)
Dina Mohamed Yunus Ramli (MAS)
Maria Mohamed Yunus Ramli (MYS)
Gu Naijun (AUS)
Guan Hua Jin (MYS)
Huang Tianjui (CHN)
Hue Pui Heng (MYS)
Jee Jing Hang (MYS)
Jiang Cuiyun (CHN)
Koh Tiong Meng (MYS)
Kolekar Chetana Vinod (IND)
Kolekar Vinod Suresh (IND)
Kozel Christian (AUT)
Lawton Catherine (AUS)
Lawton Robert (AUS)
Lee Kah Kin (MYS)
Lee Sew Chu (MYS)
Li Hongjing (CHN)
Li Yuan (AUS)
Lim Por Chua (MYS)
Lui Ching (CHN)
Maraldi Luigi (ITA)
Meng Leoinf (USA)
Meng Nicole (USA)
Mohamad Sofian Ibrahim (MYS)
Mohd. Khairul Amril Selamat (MYS)
Muhammad Drazahan Zamani (MYS)
Mukherjee Muktesh (CAN)
Muzi Yusop (MYS)
Ng May Li (MYS)
Noorida Mohd. Hashim (MYS)
Nor Fadzillah Mat Rahim (MYS)
Norliakmar Hamid (MYS)
Ramlan Safuan (MYS)
Sharma Chandrika (IND)
Shirsath Kranti Pralhad (IND)
Sim Keng Wei (MYS)
Siregar Firman Chandra (IND)

Malaysia Airlines sedang berusaha menghubungi ahli keluarga 239 penumpang dan anak kapal penerbangan MH370 dari Kuala Lumpur ke Beijing yang terputus hubungan dengan Pusat Kawalan Trafik Subang, awal hari ini.

Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif Kumpulan MAS, Ahmad Jauhari Yahya berkata fokus pihaknya juga sekarang ialah bekerjasama dengan petugas kecemasan dan pihak berkuasa yang telah mengerahkan pasukan mencari dan menyelamat bagi mengesan pesawat berkenaan.

“Kami mendoakan semua penumpang dan anak kapal serta ahli keluarga mereka,” katanya dalam satu kenyataan media.

Pesawat yang berlepas pada pukul 12.41 pagi Sabtu itu sepatutnya mendarat di Lapangan Antarabangsa Beijing pada pukul 6.30 pagi tadi.

Bagaimanapun, pesawat Boeing 777-200 itu terputus hubungan dengan pusat kawalan trafik pada pukul 2.40 pagi.

Ia membawa 239 penumpang termasuk 2 orang bayi dan 12 anak kapal yang terdiri daripada warganegara dari 13 buah negara.

Ahmad Jauhari menasihatkan ahli keluarga penumpang terlibat untuk terus ke Bangunan Sokongan Kemudahan yang terletak di Zon Sokongan Selatan KLIA bagi mendapatkan perkembangan terkini.

Jangan spekulasi, aset ATM digerakkan - Hishammuddin

Oleh KHAIRULANUAR YAHAYA

SEPANG 8 Mac.-Menteri Pertahanan, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein menggesa orang ramai tidak membuat spekulasi berkaitan kehilangan pesawat Malaysia Airlines (MAS) ketika penerbanga ke Beijing, China.

Dalam sidang akhbar hari ini, Hishammuddin berkata, tidak ada sumber rasmi yang mengesahkan kononnya pesawat yang membawa 239 penumbang dan 12 anak kapal itu terhempas di perairan Vietnam.

Malahan maklumat kononnya pesawat MH370 itu selamat mendarat di Nanming juga tidak benar.

"Kita sedang bekerjasama rapat dengan negara yang terbabit iaitu China, Vietnam dan Filipina bagi mendapatkan maklumat rasmi serta bagi tujuan misi mencari dan menyelamat.

"Kita juga telah mengerakkan aset Angkatan Tentera Malaysia (ATM) ke lokasi kali terakhir pesawat tersebut dikesan untuk operasi mencari dan menyelamat," kata Hishammuddin.

Antara aset yang dihantar termasuk helikopter 735, pesawat C-130 dan kapal tentera laut.

Bagi menyelaras maklumat rasmi, Pengarah Jabatan Penerbangan Awam Malaysia (DCA), Datuk Azaharuddin Abdul Rahman telah dilantik sebagai Ketua Koordinasi bagi menyalurkan maklumat rasmi berkaitan insiden tersebut.

Azaharuddin akan memberikan sidang akhbar selang dua jam bagi menyampaikan maklumat terkini.

-KHAIRULANUAR YAHAYA

Senarai penuh pesawat MH370

KUALA LUMPUR 8 Mac - Berikut senarai nama penuh anak kapal dan penumpang pesawat MH370 yang gagal dikesan setakat ini.

Senarai nama anak kapal
1. Fariq Ab. Hamid
2. Zaharie Ahmad Shah
3. Foong Wai Yueng
4. Goh Sock Lay
5. Gomes Patrick Francis
6. Mohd. Hazrin Mohamed Hasnan
7. Junaidi Mohd. Kassim
8. Andrew Nari
9. Ng Yar Chien
10. Tan Ser Kuin
11. Tan Size Hiang
12. Wan Syaid Wan Ismail

Senarai nama penumpang, selebihnya warga China

1. Anne Catherine Daisy (MYS)
2. Bai Xiaow (CAN)
3. Beherey Usage Waitrelos Laurence Arlet (FRA)
4. Biby Nazli Mohd. Hassim (MYS)
5. Brooskii Nikolath (RUS)
6. Burrows Mary (AUS)
7. Burrows Rooney (AUS)
8. Chan Huan Peen (MYS)
9. Chen Weihoing (MYS)
10. Chew Kar Mooi (MYS)
11. Chng Mei Ling (MYS)
12. Chuang Hsiu Ling (TWN)
13. Chustrak Oleg (UKR)
14. Deineka Sergii (UKR)
15. Dina Mohamed Yunus Ramli (MYS)
16. Gu Naijun (AUS)
17. Guan Hua Jin (MYS)
18. Huang Tianjui (CHN)
19. Hue Pui Heng (MYS)
20. Jee Jing Hang (MYS)
21. Jiang Cuiyun (CHN)
22. Koh Tiong Meng (MYS)
23. Kolekar Chetana Vinod (IND)
24. Kolekar Swanand Vinod (IND)
25. Kolekar Vinod Suresh (IND)
26. Kozel Christian (AUT)
27. Lawton Catherine (AUS)
28. Lawton Robert (AUS)
29. Lee Kah Kin (MYS)
30. Lee Sew Chu (MYS)
31. Li Hongjing (CHN)
32. Li Yuan (AUS)
33. Lim Por Chua (MYS)
34. Lui Ching (CHN)
35. Maraldi Luigi (ITA)
36. Maria Mohamed Yunus Ramli (MYS)
37. Meng Leoinf (USA)
38. Meng Nicole (USA)
39. Mohamad Sofian Ibrahim (MYS)
40. Mohd. Khairul Amril Selamat (MYS)
41. Muhammad Drazahan Zamani (MYS)
42. Mukherjee Muktesh (CAN)
43. Muzi Yusop (MYS)
44. Ng May Li (MYS)
45. Noorida Mohd. Hashim (MYS)
46. Nor Fadzillah Mat Rahim (MYS)
47. Norliakmar Hamid (MYS)
48. Puspanathan Subramaniam (MYS)
49. Ramlan Safuan (MYS)
50. Sharma Chandrika (IND)
51. Shirsath Kranti Pralhad (IND)
52. Sim Keng Wei (MYS)
53. Siregar Firman Chandra (IND)
54. Song Feifei (CHN)
55. Swadaya Ferry Indra (IND)
56. Sugianto Lomr (IND)
57. Suhaili Mustafa (MYS)
58. Surti Dahlia (NLD)
59. Swadaya Ferry Indra (IND)
60. Tan Ah Meng (MYS)
61. Tan Chong Ling (MYS)
62. Tan Sioh Peng (MYS)
63. Tan Steik Hin (MYS)
64. Tan Sei Chew (MYS)
65. Tan Xudong (CHN)
66. Tanurisam Indrasuria (IND)
67. Tee Ling Keong (MYS)
68. Teoh Kim Lun (MYS)
69. Tong Soon Lee (MYS)
70. Vinny Chynthyatiomrs (IDN)
71. Wan Hock Khoon (MYS)
72. Wang Willysurijanto (IDN)
73. Wang Ximin (NZL)
74. Wattrelos Ambre, Caroline, Laurence (FRA)
75. Wattrelos Hadrien, Marc, Pascal (FRA)
76. Weeks Paul (NZL)
77. Wong Sai Sang (MYS)
78. Wood Philipi Talmadge (USA)
79. Yang Jiabao (CHN)
80. Yap Cheemeng (MYS)
81. Zhang Liqin (CHN)
82. Zhao Qi Wei (CHN)
83. Zhao Yan Anne (FRA)

-UTUSAN ONLINE.

SEPANG: Kira-kira 20 individu dipercayai anggota keluarga penumpang pesawat Malaysia Airlines (MAS) yang dilapor hilang, dilihat berkumpul di bilik Menara Tinjau, Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur (KLIA), di sini.

Menurut seorang wanita yang berjaya disapa oleh anggota media yang menunggu di luar bilik berkenaan, mereka sedang menunggu perkembangan terkini berhubung kejadian. 

Kami keluarga penumpang, katanya ringkas... sebelum masuk ke bilik berkenaan. Mereka mula tiba di bilik yang terletak di tingkat lima Balai Perlepasan itu sejak jam 10 pagi.

Bagaimanapun anggota media tidak dibenar menemu bual mereka.

Lima anggota pasukan keselamatan Malaysia Airports Holding Berhad kelihatan berkawal di luar bilik itu.
Penerbangan MH370 Kuala Lumpur-Beijing yang berlepas dari KLIA pada 12.41 pagi dilapor terputus hubungan dengan Pusat Kawalan Trafik Udara Subang pada 2.40 pagi ketika berada di ruang angkasa Malaysia-Vietnam.

Pesawat B777-200 itu membawa 227 penumpang dan 12 anak kapal dijadual mendarat di Beijing pada 6.30 pagi.

 - BERNAMA

Kali terakhir pesawat dihubungi 2.40 pagi di perairan Laut China Selatan: CEO MAS

KUALA LUMPUR: Kali terakhir pesawat MAS MH370 dapat dihubungi ketika pesswat berada pada jarak 120 batu nautika di perairan Laut China selatan jam 2.40 pagi tadi, kata Ketua Eksekutif MAS, Ahmad Jauhari Yahya.

Beliau berkata demikian pada sidang media khas mengenai perkembangan terkini pesawat yang hilang itu, di Sepang, sebentar tadi.

Ahli keluarga penumpang MH370 dikawal ketat

SEBAHAGIAN keluarga yang dipercayai penumpang pesawat MAS MH370 jenis B777-200 penerbangan Kuala Lumpur ke Beijing yang hilang di KLIA. - Foto Abd Rahim Rahmat

SEPANG: Setiap ahli keluarga penumpang pesawat MAS MH370 dikawal ketat pasukan keselamatan dan media tidak dibenarkan mendekati atau menemubual mereka.

Kelihatan seorang wanita lingkungan 50-an sebak sebelum diiringi memasuki Anjung Tinjau KLIA tempat keluarga mangsa berkumpul.

2014/03/08 - 13:21:29 PM

Kapten Zaharie Ahmad Shah juruterbang pesawat MAS yang hilang

KUALA LUMPUR 8 Mac - Penerbangan Malaysia Airlines yang dalam perjalanan ke Beijing yang hilang hari ini dipandu oleh Kapten Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 53, kata ketua pegawai eksekutif kumpulan MAS Ahmad Jauhari Yahya.

Zaharie menyertai MAS pada 1981 dan mempunyai pengalaman terbang 18,365 jam, katanya kepada pemberita.

Ahmad Jauhari juga berkata pembantu juruterbang penerbangan MH370 ialah Fariq Ab Hamid, 27.
Fariq berpengalaman terbang 2,763 jam dan menyertai MAS pada 2007, katanya.
Pesawat Boeing 777-200 yang hilang itu berusia 11 tahun 10 bulan, kata Ahmad Jauhari.
Pesawat itu berlepas dari Kuala Lumpur pada 12.41 pagi dan dijadual mendarat di Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Beijing pada 6.30 pagi (waktu Beijing). Ia membawa 227 penumpang, dua daripadanya bayi dan 12 kru penerbangan.

- BERNAMA

Senarai penumpang MH370

KUALA LUMPUR 8 Mac - Berikut sebahagian daripada senarai penumpang yang berada dalam pesawat MH370 yang gagal dikesan sehingga 1.40 petang ini:
Fariq Ab. Hamid
Zaharie Ahmad Shah
Foong Wai Yueng
Goh Sock Lay
Gomes Patrick Francis
Mohd. Hazrin Mohamed Hasnan
Junaidi Mohd. Kassim
Andrew Nari
Ng Yar Chien
Tan Ser Kuin
Tan Size Hiang
Wan Syaid Wan Ismail
Anne Catherine Daisy (MYS)
Bai Xiaow (CAN)
Beherey Usage Waitrelos Laurence Arlet (FRA)
Biby Nazli Mohd. Hassim (MYS)
Brooskii Nikolath (RUS)
Burrows Rooney (AUS)
Chan Huan Peen (MYS)
Chen Weihoing (MYS)
Chew Kar Mooi (MYS)
Chng Mei Ling (MYS)
Chuang Hsiu Ling ((TWN)
Chustrak Oleg (UKR)
Deineka Sergii (UKR)
Dina Mohamed Yunus Ramli (MAS)
Maria Mohamed Yunus Ramli (MYS)
Gu Naijun (AUS)
Guan Hua Jin (MYS)
Huang Tianjui (CHN)
Hue Pui Heng (MYS)
Jee Jing Hang (MYS)
Jiang Cuiyun (CHN)
Koh Tiong Meng (MYS)
Kolekar Chetana Vinod (IND)
Kolekar Vinod Suresh (IND)
Kozel Christian (AUT)
Lawton Catherine (AUS)
Lawton Robert (AUS)
Lee Kah Kin (MYS)
Lee Sew Chu (MYS)
Li Hongjing (CHN)
Li Yuan (AUS)
Lim Por Chua (MYS)
Lui Ching (CHN)
Maraldi Luigi (ITA)
Meng Leoinf (USA)
Meng Nicole (USA)
Mohamad Sofian Ibrahim (MYS)
Mohd. Khairul Amril Selamat (MYS)
Muhammad Drazahan Zamani (MYS)
Mukherjee Muktesh (CAN)
Muzi Yusop (MYS)
Ng May Li (MYS)
Noorida Mohd. Hashim (MYS)
Nor Fadzillah Mat Rahim (MYS)
Norliakmar Hamid (MYS)
Ramlan Safuan (MYS)
Sharma Chandrika (IND)
Shirsath Kranti Pralhad (IND)
Sim Keng Wei (MYS)
Siregar Firman Chandra (IND)

Pesawat MAS ke Beijing dilaporkan hilang

9:54AM Mar 8 

Penerbangan ini membawa seramai 227 penumpang (termasuk dua bayi) dan 12 anak kapal.

SEPANG 8 Mac - Penerbangan Malaysia (MAS) hari ini mengesahkan bahawa pesawat MH370 terputus hubungan dengan Pusat Kawalan Trafik Udara Subang pada 2.40 pagi ini.

Kenyataan MAS itu memberitahu, penerbangan MH370, yang menggunakan pesawat B777-200, berlepas dari Kuala Lumpur pada pukul 12.41 pagi tadi dan dijadualkan mendarat di Beijing pada pukul 6.30 pagi hari yang sama.

Katanya, penerbangan itu membawa sejumlah 239 orang, yang terdiri daripada 227 penumpang termasuk 2 bayi dan 12 petugas. Kerakyatan para penumpang adalah dari 13 negara.

Menurut kenyataan itu lagi, MAS sedang bekerjasama dengan pihak berkuasa, yang sudah pun memulakan usaha mencari dan menyelamat bagi mengenal pasti lokasi pesawat.

MAS akan memberikan berita terkini mengenai kejadian ini dan orang ramai boleh menghubungi nombor 603 7884 1234 bagi maklumat terkini.

 

Air & Manusia

Hari ini menjelang petang jenaris nampak mendung... namun sampai azan Maghrib hujan masih tak turun. Semalam sepulangnya Azim dari SMTKL. Perlepasan darurat air, catuan air terus berlaku sekitar Cheras & Lembah Klang. Hanya dibenarkan pulang ke rumah pada Ahad jam 1:00 tengah hari sampai 9:00 malam ; Azim membawa rahmat. Hujan yang lama tak turun tetiba menyejukkan suasana Jenaris tatkala Azim melangkah kaki ke teratakku.

2. Amat bermakna hujan buta manusia, tanpa hujan hidup bagaikan kering di gurun panas. Rimas nak bergerak ke mana-mana. Menurut kata Azim masa dia dihantar oleh cikgunya ke klinik kerajaan. Punyalah ramai pesakait perlu rawatan. Dari jam 9:00 pagi sampai 1:00 tengah hari baru USAI berurusan dengan doktor. Nampaknya Azim dah semakin pulih setelah habis telan anti biotik & ubatan yang dibekal oleh doktor kerajaan.

3. Aku pula tumbang penat amat lantaran badan tak begitu sihat. Gout kakiku masih menyengat. Hanya bersarapan agak lewat dengan Anif di Restoran Naina Maju. Kemudian lepak kejap di Bengel Pomen Di Raja. Balik aku terus tumbang. Sedar-sedar dah Asar. Hatta pendeklah usia bak kata guru di SMI aku; tidur hanya akan memendekkan umur. Tidurlah sekadar yang perlu lebih tidur memang kita amat rugi. Ada benar katanya bila kita tidur bagai separuh mati; tak boleh buat apa pun sekadar mengulit mimpi.

JANUMET yang kutelan hari-hari

 Bila aku baca semua kesan yang berkemungkinan bakal aku alami bila makan ubat sakit kronik ini, memang aku rasa keberatan nak makan. Tak makan sakit lagilah teruk & melarat. Janumet adalah salah satu ubat sakit kronikku yang sentiasa kutelan setiap hari. Selain janumet ada empat lagi ubat yang PKupm kasi, tak termasuk ubatan sampingan yang perlu akan amalkan.

Kesan sampingan yang serius telah berlaku dalam orang yang mengambil JANUMET .
Lihat " Apakah maklumat yang paling penting yang perlu saya tahu mengenai JANUMET ? ".
Gula darah rendah ( hipoglisemia ). Jika anda mengambil JANUMET dengan ubat lain yang boleh menyebabkan gula darah rendah, seperti sulfonylurea atau insulin, risiko anda mendapat gula darah rendah yang lebih tinggi. Dos ubat sulfonylurea atau insulin mungkin perlu diturunkan semasa anda menggunakan JANUMET . Tanda-tanda dan gejala gula darah rendah boleh termasuk :

        sakit kepala
        mengantuk
        kelemahan
        pening
        kekeliruan
        cepat marah
        kelaparan
        denyutan jantung yang cepat
        berpeluh
        rasa gelisah

    Reaksi alahan yang serius. Jika anda mempunyai sebarang tanda-tanda tindak balas alahan yang serius , berhenti mengambil JANUMET dan hubungi doktor anda dengan segera. Lihat " Siapa yang tidak boleh mengambil JANUMET ?" . Doktor anda mungkin memberi anda ubat untuk reaksi alahan anda dan menetapkan ubat yang berbeza untuk penyakit kencing manis anda.
Penyakit buah pinggang , kadang-kadang memerlukan dialisis.

Kesan-kesan sampingan yang paling biasa JANUMET termasuk:

    hidung tersumbat atau berair dan sakit tekak
    jangkitan pernafasan
    cirit-birit
    loya dan muntah-muntah
    gas, sakit perut , senak
    kelemahan
    sakit kepala
    gula darah rendah ( hipoglisemia ) apabila digunakan dalam kombinasi dengan ubat-ubatan tertentu , seperti sulfonylurea atau insulin.
Mengambil JANUMET dengan makanan boleh membantu mengurangkan kesan sampingan perut biasa metformin yang biasanya berlaku pada awal rawatan. Jika anda mempunyai masalah perut yang luar biasa atau tiba-tiba, berbincang dengan doktor anda. Masalah perut yang bermula kemudian semasa rawatan mungkin menjadi tanda sesuatu yang lebih serius .

JANUMET mungkin mempunyai kesan sampingan yang lain , termasuk:
bengkak tangan atau kaki. Bengkak tangan dan kaki boleh berlaku jika anda mengambil JANUMET dalam kombinasi dengan rosiglitazone (Avandia ®). Rosiglitazone adalah satu lagi jenis ubat kencing manis .
Ini bukan semua kesan sampingan yang mungkin JANUMET . Untuk maklumat lanjut , tanya doktor atau ahli farmasi.

Beritahu doktor anda jika anda mempunyai apa-apa kesan sampingan yang mengganggu anda, sesuatu yang luar biasa , atau tidak pergi.

Hubungi doktor anda untuk nasihat perubatan tentang kesan sampingan. Anda boleh melaporkan kesan sampingan kepada FDA pada 1 -800- FDA -1088 .

(Nasib oreng sakit kronik ini memang tak menentu; hanya kepda Allah SWT sahaja kita berserah)