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          International Search On for Missing Malaysia Airlines Plane

   Malaysia Airlines says an international search is underway for a
   missing flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing carrying 239 passengers and
   crew.
   The airline said it lost all contact with Flight MH370, about two hours
   after it took off from the Malaysian capital early Saturday morning
   local time.
   At a news conference Saturday, Malaysia Airlines CEO Ahmed Jauhari
   Yahya said the airline is working with search and rescue teams to
   locate the aircraft and is calling the families of the passengers and
   crew.
   The company`s Facebook page said the passengers represented 14
   different nationalities, including 152 Chinese, 38 Malaysians and four
   Americans.
   China`s official Xinhua news agency says contact with the Boeing
   B777-200 was lost in Vietnamese airspace. It says the plane never
   entered China`s air traffic control area. Beijing said it has
   dispatched at least two rescue vessels to take part in the search.
   The most recent accident involving a Boeing 777 was the Asiana Airlines
   crash at the San Francisco International Airport in July, 2013, in
   which three people died. Pilot error is suspected in that incident.
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