There was no Bangladeshi citizen on board the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 that reportedly crashed into the sea off Vietnam with 239 people, an official confirmed here on Saturday.
“Our High Commissioner in Kuala Lumpur informed that there was no Bangladeshi national on board of the Malaysian flight to Beijing,’ Shameem Ahsan, Director General (External Publicity Wing) at the Foreign Ministry told UNB.
The aircraft, according to international media, came down near Vietnam’s Tho Chu Island. A search was underway.
Contact was lost two hours into the flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing where relatives faced an agonising wait after Flight 370 was shown to be delayed on the arrivals board.
The Malaysian Airlines plane was carrying 227 passengers, including two infants, and 12 crew members, the airline said.
It said there were 153 passengers from China, 38 from Malaysia, seven each from Indonesia and Australia, five from India, four from the U.S. and others from Indonesia, France, New Zealand, Canada, Ukraine, Russia, Italy, Taiwan, the Netherlands and Austria, reports AP.
If confirmed, it would mark the second fatal accident involving a Boeing 777 in less than a year.
CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said at a news conference that Flight MH370 lost contact with Malaysian air traffic control at 2:40 a.m. (18:40 GMT Friday), about two hours after it had taken off from Kuala Lumpur.
The plane, which carried passengers mostly from China but also from other Asian countries, North America and Europe, had been expected to land in Beijing at 6:30 a.m. Saturday (22:30 GMT Friday).
Source: UNBConnect
