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Malaysia Airlines plane missing

Malaysia Airlines plane missing

A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew went missing over the South China Sea on Saturday.

It is presumed that it had crashed, as ships and planes from countries closest to its flight path scoured a large search area for any wreckage.

Vietnamese state media, quoting a senior naval official, had reported that the Boeing 777-200ER flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing had crashed off south Vietnam. Malaysia's transport minister later denied that there was a crash.

The plane disappeared without giving a distress signal, and that action intriqued speculatiions

Search and rescue vessels from the Malaysian maritime enforcement agency reached the area where the plane last made contact but they didnt find a sign of wreckage.