On early Saturday morning Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing carrying 239 people lost contact with air traffic control and international aviation authorities still have not been able to locate the jetliner several hours have lapsed.
The plane lost communication two hours into the flight over Vietnam at 1:20 am, China’s state news agency said. The radar signal also was lost, Xinhua reported.
Commenting on rumors that the plane had landed safely, Fuad Sharuji, Malaysian Airlines’ vice president of operations control, told CNN that they were untrue and the airline had no idea where the plane was.
