Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to
Beijing on Saturday 9th March 2014 mysteriously went missing with 239
passengers on board. The plane apparently went off the radar with no distress
call made. Although explosion and crashing have not yet been ruled out, no
debris or the black box has yet been found. Authorities have discovered that
two people boarded that flight with stolen passports one being one Iranian
Asylum seeker who goes by the name Pouria Nur who was on his way to meet with
his mother in Germany, the other man is still unknown.
The story behind the disappearance of this plane
become more mysterious on Monday 10th when several relatives of the
passengers on flight MH370 Malaysia Airlines claimed they were able to call the
phones of their lost relatives. Although the calls went through, there was no
answer on the other side. The phantom calls have increased anxiety for the grieving
relatives who have been staying in Beijing Hotel for the past 3days in search
for answers to what happened to their loved ones. Hopes have been shifted to
technology to track down the phones by GPS signal, however, the numbers have
been handed over to china by the Airlines since the plane disappeared somewhere
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| relatives have been staying in Beijing Hotel as they wait for answers |
Relatives are accusing the Airlines for not telling the entire truth especially since the spokesman Ignatius Ong claims one number failed to go through yet initially it was called three times at different times and it went through each time.
The search has been expanded from between the sea of Malaysia and Vietnam to the land. There is speculation that the plane could have made a U-turn back to Kuala Lumpur. Lt. Gen. Vo Van Tuan, deputy chief of staff of Vietnamese People's Army, said authorities on land had also been ordered to search for the plane, which could have crashed into mountains or uninhabited jungle He said that military units near the border with Laos and Cambodia had been instructed to search their regions also. As the search continues, the fate of the Boeing 777 still remains a mystery.
