Malaysia Airlines Loses Contact With Plane Carrying 239 People, Including Two Infants
Malaysian PM denied crash of missing plane
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on Saturday denied reports that a missing Malaysian flight bound for Beijing had crashed.
Updated from original at 22:3o; 8:30 on 3/8
One wonders if this is terrorism? I watched a movie about Aung San Suu Kyi last night. A lot of the movie was about her amazing patience and non violence. People were asking what would Gandhi do if he were in a setting where non violence was itself repressed?
Someday, China’s Muslims and Tibetans will strike back. It is horrible to imagine the sacrifice of two infants on such a bloody altar.
UPDATES:
Vietnam Searchers Report Spotting Plane Debris
Officials Say They Found Piece of Door, Airplane Tail
MILAN (AP) — Foreign ministry officials in Rome and Vienna confirm that names of two nationals listed on the manifest of the missing Malaysian airlines flight match passports reported stolen in Thailand.
Italy’s Foreign Ministry said Saturday that an Italian man whose name was listed as being aboard is traveling in Thailand and was not aboard the plane.
A foreign ministry functionary, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed Italian reports that Luigi Maraldi had reported his passport stolen last August.
Italian news agency ANSA says Maraldi called home after hearing reports that an Italian with his name was aboard the plane.
Austrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Weiss confirmed that a name listed on the manifest matches an Austrian passport reported stolen two years ago in Thailand. Weiss would not confirm the identity.
Yahoo News quoted local newspaper reports that the Vietnamese Navy said the plane went down into the sea about 153 miles south of Phu Quoc Island, just off the coast of the Vietnamese / Cambodian border.
China launches emergency mechanism after Malaysian flight carrying 160 Chinese lost contact
BEIJING, March 8 (Xinhua) — China has launched an emergency mechanism after a flight carrying some 160 Chinese lost contact with air controllers earlier Saturday.
“We are very worried after learning the news. We are trying to get in touch with relevant parties to check it out,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said in a written statement on Saturday morning.Full Story
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Hmmm, this is suspicious. The plane disappeared as it entered Vietnamese airspace. The Vietnamese military seem to know where it went down. No emergency communications from the plane’s crew. I wonder if a Vietnamese fighter shot it down?