Published on Mar 8, 2014
Search called off for missing Boeing 777 as it is emerges that two people on board were using STOLEN PASSPORTS
An air search for the Malaysian Airlines plane that vanished off the coast of Vietnam has been called off until daylight as it emerged two passengers were travelling using stolen passports.
Two oil slicks were spotted by the Vietnamese air force earlier today, as the major search and rescue operation was launched when Flight MH307 disappeared shortly after losing contact with air traffic controllers.
The Boeing 777, with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board, took off from Kuala Lumpur at 12.21am (4.21pm GMT) bound for Beijing, where it was expected to land at 6.30am (10.30pm GMT). Among them were three Americans, including a baby.
But after reaching 35,000ft and 120 nautical miles off the coast of the Malaysian town of Kota Bharu the plane vanished, prompting fears the aircraft 'could have crashed'.
As Malaysian Airlines released a full list of the passengers on board - including five children aged two to four years old - it emerged two passengers were travelling on stolen passports.
Foreign ministry officials in Rome and Vienna have confirmed that names of two nationals listed on the manifest of the missing Malaysian airlines flight match passports reported stolen in Thailand.
Italy's Foreign Ministry said that an Italian man whose name was listed as being aboard is traveling in Thailand and was not aboard the plane.
A foreign ministry functionary, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed Italian reports that Luigi Maraldi had reported his passport stolen last August.
Italian news agency ANSA says Maraldi called home after hearing reports that an Italian with his name was aboard the plane.Austrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Weiss confirmed that a name listed on the manifest matches an Austrian passport reported stolen two years ago in Thailand. Weiss would not confirm the identity.
As the air search is abandoned over night aviation expert Chris Yates said the plane would not be carrying enough fuel to still be in the air and would 'definitely have crashed'.
He told Sky News: 'Frankly the plane would not have been carrying enough fuel to stay aloft much longer than an hour after it was due to arrive in Beijing.
'We simply don't know the circumstances behind what caused that crash at the moment.
'There will be two areas for the investigation: the maintenance of the aircraft and also possible terrorism.'Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said there has been no sign of the missing plane.
He said search operations in an area about midway between Malaysia and Vietnam's southern coast were being intensified.
It comes as the Vietnamese air force reports it has spotted two oil slicks, thought to be from the wreckage of the crash.
A Vietnamese government statement said the slicks were spotted off the southern tip of Vietnam.
They were each between six miles and nine miles long, officials said.
The statement said the slicks were consistent with the kinds that would be left by fuel from a crashed jetliner.
Less than one hour after Flight MH370 left Kuala Lumpur for Beijing, the plane disappeared from radar.
Malaysia Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said there was no indication that the pilots sent a distress signal. The fact that there was apparently no call for help suggests that whatever happened to the flight occurred quickly.
The Malaysian Transport Minister said 14 hours into the search and rescue missions, that no trace of a crash site in the sea has been found, after reports the plane had crashed off the coast of southern Vietnam.
An air search for the Malaysian Airlines plane that vanished off the coast of Vietnam has been called off until daylight as it emerged two passengers were travelling using stolen passports.
Two oil slicks were spotted by the Vietnamese air force earlier today, as the major search and rescue operation was launched when Flight MH307 disappeared shortly after losing contact with air traffic controllers.
The Boeing 777, with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board, took off from Kuala Lumpur at 12.21am (4.21pm GMT) bound for Beijing, where it was expected to land at 6.30am (10.30pm GMT). Among them were three Americans, including a baby.
But after reaching 35,000ft and 120 nautical miles off the coast of the Malaysian town of Kota Bharu the plane vanished, prompting fears the aircraft 'could have crashed'.
As Malaysian Airlines released a full list of the passengers on board - including five children aged two to four years old - it emerged two passengers were travelling on stolen passports.
Foreign ministry officials in Rome and Vienna have confirmed that names of two nationals listed on the manifest of the missing Malaysian airlines flight match passports reported stolen in Thailand.
Italy's Foreign Ministry said that an Italian man whose name was listed as being aboard is traveling in Thailand and was not aboard the plane.
A foreign ministry functionary, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed Italian reports that Luigi Maraldi had reported his passport stolen last August.
Italian news agency ANSA says Maraldi called home after hearing reports that an Italian with his name was aboard the plane.Austrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Weiss confirmed that a name listed on the manifest matches an Austrian passport reported stolen two years ago in Thailand. Weiss would not confirm the identity.
As the air search is abandoned over night aviation expert Chris Yates said the plane would not be carrying enough fuel to still be in the air and would 'definitely have crashed'.
He told Sky News: 'Frankly the plane would not have been carrying enough fuel to stay aloft much longer than an hour after it was due to arrive in Beijing.
'We simply don't know the circumstances behind what caused that crash at the moment.
'There will be two areas for the investigation: the maintenance of the aircraft and also possible terrorism.'Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said there has been no sign of the missing plane.
He said search operations in an area about midway between Malaysia and Vietnam's southern coast were being intensified.
It comes as the Vietnamese air force reports it has spotted two oil slicks, thought to be from the wreckage of the crash.
A Vietnamese government statement said the slicks were spotted off the southern tip of Vietnam.
They were each between six miles and nine miles long, officials said.
The statement said the slicks were consistent with the kinds that would be left by fuel from a crashed jetliner.
Less than one hour after Flight MH370 left Kuala Lumpur for Beijing, the plane disappeared from radar.
Malaysia Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said there was no indication that the pilots sent a distress signal. The fact that there was apparently no call for help suggests that whatever happened to the flight occurred quickly.
The Malaysian Transport Minister said 14 hours into the search and rescue missions, that no trace of a crash site in the sea has been found, after reports the plane had crashed off the coast of southern Vietnam.
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Published on Mar 8, 2014
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Vietnamese air force planes on Saturday spotted two large oil slicks in the area where a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 vanished earlier in the day, the first sign that the aircraft carrying 239 people -- including two Canadians -- on board had crashed.
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.
A Vietnamese government statement said the slicks were spotted late Saturday off the southern tip of Vietnam and were each between 10 kilometres and 15 kilometres long. 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.
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.
A Vietnamese government statement said the slicks were spotted late Saturday off the southern tip of Vietnam and were each between 10 kilometres and 15 kilometres long. 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.
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Foto dari udara terhadap limpahan minyak yang diambil oleh Pesawat Udara Vietnam ketika usaha mencari pesawat MAS yang dilaporkan hilang, 250km dari Vietnam dan 190km dari Malaysia. FOTO:REUTERS,
Dua tompok tumpahan minyak yang dipercayai datang daripada enjin pesawat Boeing 777-200 milik Malaysia Airlines yang hilang awal pagi Sabtu ditemui dalam operasi mencari yang dilakukan pihak berkuasa Vietnam, lapor sebuah akhbar negara itu.
Akhbar Tuoi Tre itu juga melaporkan tompokan minyak masing-masing sepanjang 20 kilometer pada jarak 500 meter antara satu sama lain itu ditemui juruterbang pesawat tentera Vietnam yang menyertai misi pencarian tersebut.
Tompokan minyak itu dilaporkan ditemui 140 kilometer ke selatan Pulau Tho Chu di pesisir selatan Vietnam.
Selain tompokan minyak, pasukan pencari Vietnam juga mengesan kepulan asap di permukaan laut berhampiran tempat tompokan minyak ditemui di koordinat 7.25 utara, 103.2320 timur.
Sebelum itu akhbar yang sama melaporkan pesawat MH370 yang dalam penerbangan ke Beijing itu terhempas di Laut China Selatan dalam kawasan perairan Malaysia.
Akhbar Tuoi Tre itu juga melaporkan tompokan minyak masing-masing sepanjang 20 kilometer pada jarak 500 meter antara satu sama lain itu ditemui juruterbang pesawat tentera Vietnam yang menyertai misi pencarian tersebut.
Tompokan minyak itu dilaporkan ditemui 140 kilometer ke selatan Pulau Tho Chu di pesisir selatan Vietnam.
Selain tompokan minyak, pasukan pencari Vietnam juga mengesan kepulan asap di permukaan laut berhampiran tempat tompokan minyak ditemui di koordinat 7.25 utara, 103.2320 timur.
Sebelum itu akhbar yang sama melaporkan pesawat MH370 yang dalam penerbangan ke Beijing itu terhempas di Laut China Selatan dalam kawasan perairan Malaysia.
Laksamana Tentera Laut Vietnam, Ngo Van Phat dipetik berkata pesawat itu dipercayai terhempas kira-kira 300 kilometer dari Pulau Tho Chu. Pulau itu terletak 102 ke barat daya resort peranginan Phu Quoc dekat kawasan perairan sempadan Malaysia dan Vietnam.
Penerbangan MH370 ke Beijing itu membawa 227 penumpang dari 14 negara selain 12 anak kapal terputus hubungan dengan Pusat Kawalan Trafik Udara Subang pada 2.40 pagi Sabtu.
Pesawat itu berlepas dari KLIA pada 12.41 pagi dan dijadual mendarat di Beijing pada 6.30 pagi.
Ia dilaporkan hilang selepas gagal dikesan pada radar pusat kawalan trafik udara Vietnam yang kemudian melaporkannya kepada pusat kawalan trafik di Subang.
Dalam pada itu, Vietnam juga menyatakan kesediaan untuk menggerakkan misi mencari dan menyelamat sekiranya ada permintaan daripada kerajaan Malaysia.
"Oleh kerana pesawat itu hilang dalam kawasan perairan Malaysia, Vietnam tidak boleh menghantar pasukan penyelamatnya tanpa permintaan rasmi daripada Malaysia," kata Mejar Jeneral Pham Hoai Giang, pengarah Jabatan Mencari dan Menyelamat di Kementerian Pertahanan Vietnam dipetik oleh Tuoi Tre. -astroawani
Penerbangan MH370 ke Beijing itu membawa 227 penumpang dari 14 negara selain 12 anak kapal terputus hubungan dengan Pusat Kawalan Trafik Udara Subang pada 2.40 pagi Sabtu.
Pesawat itu berlepas dari KLIA pada 12.41 pagi dan dijadual mendarat di Beijing pada 6.30 pagi.
Ia dilaporkan hilang selepas gagal dikesan pada radar pusat kawalan trafik udara Vietnam yang kemudian melaporkannya kepada pusat kawalan trafik di Subang.
Dalam pada itu, Vietnam juga menyatakan kesediaan untuk menggerakkan misi mencari dan menyelamat sekiranya ada permintaan daripada kerajaan Malaysia.
"Oleh kerana pesawat itu hilang dalam kawasan perairan Malaysia, Vietnam tidak boleh menghantar pasukan penyelamatnya tanpa permintaan rasmi daripada Malaysia," kata Mejar Jeneral Pham Hoai Giang, pengarah Jabatan Mencari dan Menyelamat di Kementerian Pertahanan Vietnam dipetik oleh Tuoi Tre. -astroawani
Oil spills found near site of crashed Malaysia Airlines plane Deputy Minister of Transport Pham Quy Tieu (2nd, R) is directing the search for the crashed Malaysian plane
During the search for the Malaysia Airlines MH370 plane that crashed off Vietnam’s Tho Chu Islands this morning (local time), a Vietnamese plane has discovered two alleged oil spills near the site of crash.
At 4:26 pm Saturday (Vietnam time), an AN 26 plane found an alleged oil spill at 7.55 degrees latitude north and 103.18 degrees longitude east.
An hour later, the plane discovered another alleged oil spill about 150 km from Tho Chu Island.
The plane later left the area as it was getting dark, causing difficulties to the search.
Meanwhile, three Vietnamese vessels, including a naval ship, a coast guard boat and a rescue boat, were sailing to the site of crash.
Deputy Minister of Transport Pham Quy Tieu has been directing the search for the Malaysian plane.
So far, the search and rescue agencies of both Singapore and Malaysia said they have found no signs of the crashed plane.
The Vietnamese authorities have informed both Singapore and Malaysia about the alleged oil spills for verification.
The flight MH370 disappeared at 1:40 am local time (1840 GMT Friday), about two hours after it left Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
The plane was carrying 239 people from 14 countries from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, China when it crashed.
There is no reports of casualties so far.
Lai Xuan Thanh, head of the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam, said that it is an abnormal phenomenon that the Malaysian plane had not automatically sent its signals to satellites. -Tuoi Tre
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Pasport curi tambah lagi misteri kehilangan MH370
Pihak berkuasa sedang menyiasat kemungkinan wujud unsur jenayah berikutan laporan bahawa seorang warga Itali yang disenaraikan dalam penerbangan MH370 tidak pernah menaiki pesawat tersebut.
Menurut laporan agensi berita asing, penumpang Luigi Maraldi, 37, disenaraikan dalam senarai penumpang penerbangan yang dikeluarkan oleh Malaysia Airlines sebelumnya, tetapi akhbar Itali Corriere Della Serra melaporkan dia tidak berada dalam pesawat itu.
Maraldi dilaporkan kehilangan pasportnya di Thailand Ogos lepas.
"Mereka (pihak berkuasa Malaysia) mempunyainya (maklumat) tetapi ia masih dalam (semakan)," kata Timbalan Menteri Pengangkutan Aziz Kaprawi kepada pemberita lewat petang ini di sebuah hotel di KLIA.
Menurut Pengarah Jabatan Penerbangan Awam Datuk Azharuddin Abdul Rahman Penerbangan, pihak berkuasa telah meneliti semua rakaman CCTV penumpang serta bagasi.
"Setakat ini kita puas hati," katanya, sambil menambah maklumat lanjut tidak boleh didedahkan atas sebab-sebab keselamatan. -mk
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Kehilangan MH370: 'Pasport curi' mungkin digunakan - The Guardian
KUALA LUMPUR: Laman web akhbar The Guardian melaporkan bahawa dua orang lelaki yang tersenarai sebagai penumpang MH370 , tidak menaiki kapal terbang tersebut. Justeru menimbulkan kemungkinan bahawa pasport palsu telah digunakan.
Individu pertama ialah seorang lelaki warga Itali bernama Luigi Maraldi yang dilaporkan kini berada di Phuket, Thailand.
Menurut wartawan The Guardian Kate Hodal, kedutaan Itali di Bangkok mengesahkan kedudukan Maraldi di Phuket.
Kedutaan Itali dilaporkan sedang memeriksa kemungkinan 'individu berbeza tetapi mempunyai nama dan tarikh lahir sama’ menaiki pesawat MH370.
Pasport Maraldi dilaporkan telah dicuri tahun lepas.
Individu kedua yang namanya berada di dalam senarai penumpang tetapi tidak menaiki pesawat MH370 ialah seorang warga Austria yang juga melaporkan pasportnya dicuri dua tahun lalu di Thailand.
Kementerian Luar Austria dalam kenyataan kepada media pada hari Sabtu juga mengesahkan lelaki tersebut (nama tidak didedahkan) kini berada di Austria.
Hanya ada seorang warganegara Austria dalam senarai penumpang bernama Christian Kozel. -astroawani
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