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Malaysia Airlines MH370 Flight Incident - 4th Media Statement

We regret to announce that Subang Traffic Control lost contact with flight MH370 at 2:40 am today.

We are currently working with international authorities on the search and rescue mission and as at 1400 hours, 08 March 2014, we have no information on the location of the airline.

MH370 is a Boeing 777-200 aircraft on a code share with China Southern Airlines.. It departed Kuala Lumpur at 12.41 am today for Beijing. The aircraft was scheduled to land at Beijing International Airport at 6.30am local Beijing time. The flight had a total number of 227 passengers and 12 crew members. The passengers were from 14 different countries, most of whom are from China.

Our team is currently calling family members of passengers to keep them updated on the situation and our focus now is to work with the emergency responders and the authorities. We are sending a MH team to support the families of passengers at Beijing. The airline will continue to publish regular updates on the situation.

Our thoughts and prayers are with all passengers, our crew and their family members.

Family members please call 03 8787 1269 or call 87871629.

Media: +603 8777 5698/ +603 8787 1276.

Public: +603 7884 1234

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Nationalpost News : Malaysia Airlines loses contact with Flight MH370 carrying 239 people — including two Canadians — from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing

Malaysia Airlines said it had lost contact with a plane carrying 239 people — including two Canadians — on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and search and rescue teams were trying to locate the aircraft.

The red-eye flight, a Boeing 777-200 operating as Flight MH370, took off at 12:41 a.m. local time Saturday. Air traffic control in Subang, a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, lost contact with the plane almost two hours later, at 2:40 a.m. The airline did not say where the plane was at that time.

According to China’s state news agency, the plane lost communication over Vietnam with air control in Ho Chi Minh City at 1:20 a.m. The radar signal also was lost, Xinhua reported.

“At the moment we have no idea where this aircraft is right now,” Malaysia Airlines vice-president of operations control Fuad Sharuji said on CNN’s AC360.

The flight was expected to land in Beijing at 6:30 a.m. local time Saturday, a 3,700-kilometre trip. China and Malaysia are in the same time zone.

At the time of its disappearance, the plane was carrying about 7.5 hours of fuel, Mr. Sharuji told CNN.

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