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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Vietnamese air force planes on Saturday
spotted two large oil slicks close to where a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777
went missing earlier in the day, the first sign that the aircraft carrying
239 people had crashed.
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The air force planes were part of a multinational search operation launched
after Flight MH370 fell off radar screens less than an hour after it took
off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing early Saturday morning.
The oil slicks were spotted late Saturday off the southern tip of Vietnam
and were each between 10 kilometers (6 miles) and 15 kilometers (9 miles)
long, the Vietnamese government said in a statement. There was no
confirmation that the slicks were related to the missing plane, but the
statement said they were consistent with the kinds that would be produced by
the two fuel tanks of a crashed jetliner.
At a news conference in Beijing early Sunday, Ignatius Ong, CEO of Malaysia
Airlines subsidiary Firefly airlines, said the plane's whereabouts were
still unknown.
Two-thirds of the plane's passengers were from China, while others were from
elsewhere in Asia, North America and Europe.
Malaysia Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said there was no indication that
the pilots had sent a distress signal, suggesting that whatever happened to
the plane occurred quickly and possibly catastrophically.
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Raw: Airline CEO Discusses Search Efforts
Ong said the plane was last inspected 10 days ago and was "in proper
condition."
Asked whether terrorism was suspected, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak
said, "We are looking at all possibilities, but it is too early to make any
conclusive remarks."
Foreign ministry officials in Italy and Austria said the names of two
nationals from those countries listed on the flight's manifest matched
passports reported stolen in Thailand.
Italy's Foreign Ministry said the Italian man who was listed as being a
passenger, Luigi Maraldi, was traveling in Thailand and was not aboard the
plane. It said he reported his passport stolen last August.
Austria's Foreign Ministry confirmed that a name listed on the manifest
matched an Austrian passport reported stolen two years ago in Thailand. It
said the Austrian was not on the plane, but would not confirm the person's
identity.
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A woman, center, surrounded by media covers her mouth …
A woman, center, surrounded by media covers her mouth on her arrival at a
hotel which is prepared fo …
At Beijing's airport, authorities posted a notice asking relatives and
friends of passengers to gather at a nearby hotel to wait for further
information, and provided a shuttle bus service. A woman wept aboard the bus
while saying on a mobile phone, "They want us to go to the hotel. It cannot
be good."
Relatives and friends of passengers were escorted into a private area at the
hotel, but reporters were kept away. A man in a gray hooded sweatshirt
later stormed out complaining about a lack of information. The man, who said
he was a Beijing resident but declined to give his name, said he was
anxious because his mother was on board the flight with a group of 10
tourists.
"We have been waiting for hours and there is still no verification," he said.
The plane was last detected on radar at 1:30 a.m. (1730 GMT Friday) around
where the South China Sea meets the Gulf of Thailand, authorities in
Malaysia and Vietnam said.
Lai Xuan Thanh, director of Vietnam's civil aviation authority, said air
traffic officials in the country never made contact with the plane.
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A woman wipes her tears after walking out of the reception center and
holding area for family and fr …
The plane "lost all contact and radar signal one minute before it entered
Vietnam's air traffic control," Lt. Gen. Vo Van Tuan, deputy chief of staff
of the Vietnamese army, said in a statement.
The South China Sea is a tense region with competing territorial claims that
have led to several low-level conflicts, particularly between China and the
Philippines. That antipathy briefly faded Saturday as China, the
Philippines, Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia all sent ships and planes to
the region.
Najib said Malaysia had dispatched 15 planes and nine ships to the area. The
U.S. Navy was sending a warship and a surveillance plane, while Singapore
said it would send a submarine and a plane. China and Vietnam also were
sending aircraft to help in the search.
It's not uncommon for it to take several days to find the wreckage of
aircraft floating on the ocean. Locating and then recovering the flight data
recorders, vital to any investigation, can take months or even years.
"In times of emergencies like this, we have to show unity of efforts that
transcends boundaries and issues," said Lt. Gen. Roy Deveraturda, commander
of the Philippine military's Western Command.
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This photo provided by Laurent Errera taken Dec. 26, 2011, shows the
Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-20 …
After the oil slick was spotted, the air search was suspended for the night
and was to resume Sunday morning, while the sea search was ongoing, Malaysia
Airlines said.
The plane was carrying 227 passengers, including two infants, and 12 crew
members, the airline said. It said there were 152 passengers from China, 38
from Malaysia, seven from Indonesia, six from Australia, five from India,
three from the U.S., and others from Indonesia, France, New Zealand, Canada,
Ukraine, Russia, Taiwan and the Netherlands.
In Kuala Lumpur, family members gathered at the airport, but were kept away
from reporters.
"Our team is currently calling the next of kin of passengers and crew. Focus
of the airline is to work with the emergency responders and authorities and
mobilize its full support," said Ahmad Jauhari, the airline CEO. "Our
thoughts and prayers are with all affected passengers and crew and their
family members."
Fuad Sharuji, Malaysia Airlines' vice president of operations control, told
CNN that the plane was flying at an altitude of 35,000 feet (10,670 meters)
when it disappeared and that the pilots had reported no problem with the
aircraft.
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This screengrab from flightradar24.com shows the last reported position of
Malaysian Airlines flight …
Malaysia Airlines has a good safety record, as does the 777, which had not
had a fatal crash in its 19-year history until an Asiana Airlines plane
crashed in San Francisco in July 2013, killing three passengers, all
teenagers from China.
Airliner "black boxes" — the flight data and cockpit voice recorders — are
equipped with "pingers" that emit ultrasonic signals that can be detected
underwater. Under good conditions, the signals can be detected from several
hundred miles away, said John Goglia, a former member of the U.S. National
Transportation Safety Board. If the boxes are trapped inside the wreckage,
the sound may not travel as far, he said. If the boxes are at the bottom of
an underwater trench, that also hinders how far the sound can travel. The
signals also weaken over time.
Air France Flight 447, with 228 people on board, disappeared over the
Atlantic Ocean en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris on June 1, 2009. Some
wreckage and bodies were recovered over the next two weeks, but it took
nearly two years for the main wreckage of the Airbus 330 and its black boxes
to be located and recovered.
Malaysia Airlines said the 53-year-old pilot of Flight MH370, Zaharie Ahmad
Shah, has more than 18,000 flying hours and has been flying for the airline
since 1981. The first officer, 27-year-old Fariq Hamid, has about 2,800
hours of experience and has flown for the airline since 2007.
The tip of the wing of the same Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777-200 broke off
Aug. 9, 2012, as it was taxiing at Pudong International Airport outside
Shanghai. The wingtip collided with the tail of a China Eastern Airlines
A340 plane. No one was injured.
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Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, right, and his …
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, right, and his deputy Muhyiddin Yassin
walk out of the recepti …
Malaysia Airlines' last fatal incident was in 1995, when one its planes
crashed near the Malaysian city of Tawau, killing 34 people. The deadliest
crash in its history occurred in 1977, when a domestic Malaysian flight
crashed after being hijacked, killing 100 people.
In August 2005, a Malaysian Airlines 777 flying from Perth, Australia, to
Kuala Lumpur suddenly shot up 900 meters (3,000 feet) before the pilot
disengaged the autopilot and landed safely. The plane's software had
incorrectly measured speed and acceleration, and the software was quickly
updated on planes around the world.
Malaysia Airlines has 15 Boeing 777-200s in its fleet of about 100 planes.
The state-owned carrier last month reported its fourth straight quarterly
loss and warned of tougher times.
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Chris Brummitt reported from Hanoi, Vietnam. Other Associated Press
journalists contributing to this report were Didi Tang and Aritz Parra in
Beijing, Stephen Wright in Bangkok, Colleen Barry in Milan, Italy, George
Jahn in Vienna, Jim Gomez and Oliver Teves in Manila, Philippines, Joan Lowy
in Washington and Scott Mayerowitz in New York. | W***o
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: http://news.yahoo.com/oil-slicks-spotted-hunt-jet-239-aboard-19
: KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Vietnamese air force planes on Saturday
: spotted two large oil slicks close to where a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777
: went missing earlier in the day, the first sign that the aircraft carrying
: 239 people had crashed.
: Related Stories
: Oil slicks found in hunt for missing Malaysia jet Associated Press
: Vietnam spots oil slicks in hunt for missing jet Associated Press
: China-bound Malaysian jet vanishes with 239 aboard Associated Press
: Vietnamese air force planes find oil slicks as search for missing jet
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