Vietnam media: Navy confirms flight MH370 crashed into the sea

[brooklynite]

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Source: Yahoo News

UPDATE [11:32am]: VN Express, Vietnam's largest news site, reports that Vietnam Emergency Rescue Center just announced it has found signal of the missing plane at 9.50am 120 miles South West of Ca Mau cape, the Southern-most point of Vietnam.

The signal is believed to be the ELT (Emergency Locator Transmittor) , which can be activated manually by the flight crew or automatically upon impact.

UPDATE [12:37]: Tuoi Tre, a leading daily in Vietnam, reports that the Vietnamese Navy has confirmed the plane crashed into the ocean. According to Navy Admiral Ngo Van Phat, Commander of the Region 5, military radar recorded that the plane crashed into the sea at a location 153 miles South of Phu Quoc island.


Read more: http://sg.news.yahoo.com/mas-aircraft-goes-missing--says-airline-023820132.html

[SoapBox]

1. Oh my...

Such bad news.

[AtheistCrusader]

2. Damn.

Here's hoping rescue craft get there quickly, and that it went in gently.

Damn damn.

[rhett o rick]

3. Tragedy. nm

[uppityperson]

4. Nothing from the airline yet. The Guardian's updating page says unconfirmed as yet.

http://www.malaysiaairlines.com/my/en/site/dark-site.html

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/08/malaysian-airlines-plane-live

[applegrove]

5. Vibes to all those souls and their families.

[Cha]

7. ..

[jsr]

6. Malaysia Airlines plane crashes in South China Sea with 239 people aboard: report

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/08/us-malaysiaairlines-flight-idUSBREA2701720140308

Malaysia Airlines plane crashes in South China Sea with 239 people aboard: report
By Stuart Grudgings and Anuradha Raghu
KUALA LUMPUR Sat Mar 8, 2014 1:18am EST

(Reuters) - A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew crashed in the South China Sea on Saturday, Vietnamese state media said, quoting a senior naval official.

The Boeing 777-200ER flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing had been missing for hours when Vietnam's Tuoi Tre news quoted Admiral Ngo Van Phat as saying he had asked boats from an island off south Vietnam to rush to the crash site.

If the report is confirmed, it would mark the U.S.-built airliner's deadliest crash since entering service 19 years ago.

[uppityperson]

8. RUMORS, NO wreckage or signal found yet

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/08/malaysian-airlines-plane-live

The Malaysian transport minister has given a press conference, but without revealing much more concrete information. No wreckage has been found, the exact location of the plane is unknown, helicopters and ships have been deployed to search for it. The reports from the Vietnamese navy that the plane has crashed remain unconfirmed.

[uppityperson]

9. Report on signal "inaccurate".

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/malaysia-airlines-loses-contact-with-plane-en-route-to-beijing-with-239-aboard/

[herding cats]

10. Oil Slick Hints Malaysian Jet May Have Crashed at Sea

HONG KONG — A 12-mile long oil slick spotted between Malaysia and Vietnam Saturday afternoon is thought to be the first sign that a missing Malaysia Airlines flight with 239 people aboard went down in the waters between southernmost Vietnam and northern Malaysia, according to Vietnam’s director of civil aviation.

“An AN26 aircraft of the Vietnam Navy has discovered an oil slick about 20 kilometers in the search area, which is suspected of being a crashed Boeing aircraft -- we have announced that information to Singapore and Malaysia and we continue the search,” Lai Xuan Thanh, the director of the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam said in reporting the sighting of the slick.

Mr. Thanh said the oil on the surface on the water was somewhat closer to Vietnam than Malaysia at the mouth of the shallow Gulf of Thailand. The last coordinates automatically transmitted by the aircraft were from on the Malaysian side near the midpoint between the two countries, when the plane appeared to be in stable flight at 35,000 feet.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-flight.html?_r=0&referrer=