Plane vanishes carrying 239 passengers
A Malaysian Airlines plane carrying 239 people has vanished on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
A search is under way in waters between Malaysia and Vietnam.
Malaysia Airlines said in a statement that flight MH370 had disappeared at 02:40 local time on Saturday (18:40 GMT on Friday) after leaving Kuala Lumpur, reports the BBC.
It had been expected to land in Beijing at 06:30 (22:30 GMT).
For more than six hours after it was due to land, the flight was listed as delayed. It has now been removed from the international arrivals board.
The flight was a code share with China Southern Airlines CZ748 and more than 150 of the 227 passengers on board are Chinese Nationals.
There were also reportedly 38 Malaysians, 12 people from Indonesia and six from Australia.
The weather along the route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing was reportedly good.
Malaysia Airlines chief executive Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said the focus was on helping the families of those missing. He said that 80% of the families had been contacted.
The plane went off the radar south of Vietnam, according to a statement on the Vietnamese government website.
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