MH370 One Week On

MH370 One Week On And Still No Plane

Today at about 2:15PM, the Malaysian Prime Minister, Najib Razak, held a news conference on the MH370 incident. For those who had been following closely the news of the incident, the updates presented here might not be new, as there were already unconfirmed reports swirling on the Internet. It is however a confirmation to some that the MH370 incident is a plane hijacking. You can watch the entire press conference here which is more than 13 minutes long. For a brief summary of the press conference, continue on the jump.

The Plot Thickens: Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Missing

Where is MH370?

I'm sure many of us have been following the news about MH370 since yesterday. This is incident, as it is unfolding now, is probably something all of us wouldn't want to be tuning in to during the weekends, we'd rather be doing other things right now. Sad as it may seem, it is human nature that we do tune in this story, be it curiosity or because we care. Though it's been more than 36 hours that MH370 has been missing, I still hope and pray for those on board MH370.

News - MAS Flight MH370 KL-Beijing Lost Contact

Malaysia Airlines had confirmed that flight MH370 had lost contact with Subang Air Traffic Control at 2:40am today. The plane departed from Kuala Lumpur at 12:41am and was scheduled to land at Beijing International Airport at 6:30am.

The flight was carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew,  comprised of 14 nationalities, 2 of them infants. More than half of 227 passengers were Chinese nationals.

The last update from from MAS at 7:30am, had confirmed that the Search and Rescue Team had been activated. Updates directly from MAS can be found here, MAS Flight MH370 updates page.

Now I can't remember the last time I heard or saw any news about major air disaster involving larger plane in Malaysia or specifically Malaysia Airlines but doing a quick search online yielded results such as the MH684 crash in 1983 and MH653 crash, that was hijacked. With the current MH370 incident, this could probably be the first air disaster for MAS involving a Wide-body aircraft.

Let's pray that everyone on MH370 are safe and will be found.


Sources:
MAS - MH370 Update Page
BBC - MH370

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