A Malaysia Airlines flight with 227 passengers on board - including two adult Americans and an infant - has gone missing and a search and rescue team has been deployed to locate the aircraft, a spokeswoman has confirmed to ABC News.
The Beijing-bound flight departed Kuala Lumpur at 12:55 a.m., and was scheduled to land in Beijing at 6:30 a.m., the airline said. It went missing two hours into the flight and disappeared off the radar at 065515 North (longitude) and 1033443 East (latitude).
The airline said there are 227 passengers, including two infants, and 12 crew members on board the Boeing 777-200 aircraft.
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Flight path of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, China.
"We deeply regret that we have lost all contacts with flight MH370," the airline's chief executive officer Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said in a statement on Facebook.
"Malaysia Airlines is currently working with the authorities who have activated their Search and Rescue team to locate the aircraft," Yahya said. "Our team is currently calling the next-of-kin of passengers and crew."
The plane's route would take the aircraft from Malaysia across to Vietnam and China. Vietnam said on its official website that its air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane "in Ca Mau province airspace before it had entered contact with Ho Chi Minh City air traffic control." Ca Mau is near the southern tip of Vietnam.
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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, reporters crowd at Terminal 3 of Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, China Saturday, March 8, 2014 following a report that a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 lost contact on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
Malaysia's defense minister told a news conference, "We are trying to do everything in our power to [determine] where the plane is."
He said that the country had launched C-130 search planes and helicopters. "We have deployed all the ships to the area," the minister said.
Vietnam's Ministry of Defense has launched rescue efforts to find the plane, working in coordination with Malaysian and Chinese officials, a government statement said.
"We have not discovered any wreckage yet," the Malaysian official said.
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The arrival board at the International Airport in Beijing, China shows a Malaysian airliner is delayed, Saturday, March 8, 2014. A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 carrying 239 people lost contact with air traffic control early Saturday morning on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, and international aviation authorities still hadn't located the jetliner several hours later.
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