Freitag, 4. April 2014

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The mysterious flight MH370




Sometimes, planes just vanish from radar screens, but reappear after a while. On Saturday, March 8th 2014, however, a plane of Malaysian Airlines, carrying 240 passengers, vanishes without a trace. Somewhere between one and two hours after its departure, flight MH370, from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, is detected for the last time above the South China Sea. About 12 hours after the last contact, Malaysian, Vietnamese as well as Singaporean search and rescue teams start off to search for the lost plane. For a short time it is assumed that the plane has crashed in Vietnamese maritime territory, but soon afterwards is denied. In order to get further information, waiting families are offered a transfer into a nearby hotel. Unfortunately, some relatives already suspect that something horrible has happened and freak out. At first, many of them also get told that flight MH370 has not even taken off. …




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