No wreckage found, however "plane has crashed" Vietnamese Navy
BREAKING NEWS: No wreckage have yet been found however, Vietnamese Navy Admiral Ngo Van Phat confirmed flight MH370 had crashed into the South China Sea. Two infants are among the flight passengers list.
We can confirm that the plane was last reported off the China coast where two Chinese rescue ships are trying to locate the aircraft.
We earlier understood that the last signal was on land, this is now not true as new signals were recieved.
NEW: The flight time before the crash may be earlier then first thought, CNN has said.
The plane has made no contact for 11 hours, meaning the aircraft has no fuel, it was reported to have headed into the Vietnam air space.
Two New Zealanders are among 239 passengers on a missing Malaysia Airlines passenger plane from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, Saturday after losing contact with air traffic controllers, the airline said.
"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.
Subang Air Traffic Control lost contact with Flight MH370 at about 2:40 a.m. local time (1:40 p.m. ET Friday), Sharuji said.
"We tried to call this aircraft through various means," he said. The airline checked reports that the jet had landed in several places, but determined that none of the reports was true, he said.
The Boeing 777-200 departed Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 12:41 a.m. and was expected to land in Beijing at 6:30 a.m., a 2,300-mile (3,700 kilometer) trip. It was carrying 227 passengers, two of them infants, and 12 crew members, the airline said.
At the time of its disappearance, the plane was carrying about 7.5 hours of fuel, Sharuji said.
The passengers are of 13 nationalities, the airline said. They were from China and Taiwan (154), Malaysia (38), Indonesia (12), Australia (7), France (3), United States (4), New Zealand (2), Ukraine (2), Canada (2), Russia (1), Italy (1), Netherlands (1), Austria (1).
The pilot of the aircraft has more then 18,000 hours flying time.
NEW ZEALAND, AUSTRALIA INVOLVED
Two New Zealanders and Six Australians are involved in the flight missing, and one New Zealand Airliner who is involved in aircraft movement near the area involved says "Hardly any communication, 20 minutes into flight some radars went down, two hours later the whole lot did, it sounds like a hijack. It's not good."
NPYIP can confirm that there was hardly any communication between the control towers, that Flight Radar 24 lost contact between the plane twenty minutes into flight which was highly suspicious but was not reacted on, two hours later radars were lost to control towers, and the last report was it dropped 200 metres.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- NEW: No wreakage has yet been found Malaysia's transport minister has confirmed.
- NEW: A mother of one of the passengers screamed out crying "My son was only forty years old" in the latest confrence with the families at a local hotel.
- China deploys two rescue ships to search South China Sea
- "We have no idea where this aircraft is," Malaysia Airlines vice president says
- The airline is contacting next of kin
- Flight was carrying 239 people, including 2 infants