
The search for the Boeing 777-200 Malaysia Airlines missing over the South China Sea is currently leading 40 ships and 22 aircraft of several states, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Malaysian media.
“We have nothing to inform, the search and rescue groups did not notice anything in the South China Sea or at the place of the aircraft disappeared from the radar screens,” said the head of the Malaysian civil aviation department at a press conference.
Meanwhile, as it turned out, the two were originally on the lists of passengers of the missing flight - the Austrian Christian Kozil and the Italian Luigi Maraldi - are actually at home. Both of them previously announced the theft of their passports while in Thailand.
Malaysian investigators, with the help of employees of the relevant embassies, are trying to establish whether the stolen documents have used the stolen documents, at least two of those on board - the personality of the two passengers could not establish.
“We do not exclude any options,” the head of the National Malaysian airline told Star.
The airliner, who made a flight from the capital of Malaysia Kuala-Lumpur to Beijing with 227 passengers and 12 crew members, disappeared from the radar screens at 02:40 Saturdays in the Malaysian time (22:40 Friday MSC). At the time of the last contact, he was 220 kilometers from the east coast of the kingdom. The weather in the area of the aircraft disappeared was good, the plane controlled by experienced pilots shortly before the disappearance was a full check.
Malaysia Airlines previously confirmed that there were 154 passengers from China and Taiwan, 38 Malaysians, 7 Indonesians, six Australians, five Indians, three US citizens, two New Zealanders, Ukrainians and Canadians, one inhabitants of Russia, Italy, the Netherlands and Austria. However, now the real national affiliation of at least four of those who were on board is questioned.