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               Search Finds No Trace of Missing Malaysia Airliner

   An international search has so far found no trace of a missing Malaysia
   Airlines flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing that disappeared with 239
   passengers and crew on board.
   Ships and aircraft from Malaysia, Vietnam, China and the Philippines
   are concentrating their search in an area about 240 kilometers off the
   coast of Vietnam`s southwestern Tho Chu island, where Vietnamese
   authorities say they last detected signal from the Boeing 777-200.
   A Vietnamese naval commander had told state media that the missing
   plane could have crashed in Malaysian waters.
   However, Malaysian acting Transport Minister Hishamuddin Tun Hussein
   told a news conference that he had not been informed that the plane had
   been located and no wreckage has been sighted.
   The airline said it lost all contact with Flight MH370 about an hour
   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 plane was
   lost in Vietnamese airspace. It says the plane never entered China`s
   air traffic control area. Vietnamese officials say the flight
   disappeared about a minute short of entering Vietnamese airspace.
   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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