Kuala Lumpur, March 8: Five Indians are among the 239 passengers on board the Malaysia Airlines plane that went missing on the way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing early Saturday.
Flight MH 370, a Boeing 777-200 craft, took off from Kuala Lumpur at 12:21 a.m. time and was regular to land in Beijing at 6:30 a.m. time however it lost contact with ground control 2 hours once take-off.
Even as anxious relatives crowded the Kuala Lumpur International airport, the situation of the aircraft remains unknown.
In its fourth media statement during this connection, Malaysia Airlines said: “Malaysia Airlines is still unable to determine any contact or establish the whereabouts of flight MH370. Earlier today, Subang ATC had lost contact with the aircraft at 2.40 a.m. The last well-known position of MH370 before it disappeared off the measuring device was 065515 North (longitude) and 1033443 East (latitude).”
According to the airline’s web site, there are 227 passengers on board, including 2 infants.
Apart from the 5 Indians, there are 154 Chinese, 38 Malaysians, seven Indonesians, six Australians, four Americans, 3 French, 2 New Zealanders, 2 Ukrainians, 2 Canadians, one Russian, one Italian, one Dutch and one Austrian on board.
