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Monday 10 March 2014

Asia rallies to find missing airliner

Asia Times online

 Southeast Asian countries, China and the US have put territorial conflict aside to join the search for a Malaysian airliner that went missing with 239 people on over the South China Sea on Saturday.

Dozens of aircraft and ships are contributing the search for the airline, including crews from Vietnam, China, Singapore, Indonesia, the United States, Thailand, Australia and the Philippines, Malaysian Civil Aviation Chief Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said on Monday. Abdul Rahman told reporters in Kuala Lumpur: "We are every hour, every second looking at every area of the sea."

No wreckage from the plane, a Boeing 777-200ER operated by state-owned Malaysian Airline System (MAS), has been found and the 227 passengers and 12 crew aboard flight MH370 are presumed dead. The flight had left Kuala Lumpur at 12.41 am local time Saturday, and should have landed in Beijing at 6.30 am.


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