Oil slicks spotted in search for missing Malaysia Airlines plane
- Vietnam air force spots oil slicks consistent with crash at sea
- Plane en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing
- Boeing 777 was carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew
- Passengers are from 14 nationalities, mostly Chinese
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A photo has been made available of the actual plane that has gone missing. The image shows it taking off from Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport in France in December 2011.
Almost 240 people are missing after a Malaysian Airlines flight en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing vanished from radar screens in the early hours of Saturday.
Search and rescue teams from Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore were scouring waters south of Vietnam for traces of flight MH370, more than 12 hours after it lost contact. Ships and aircraft from China and the Philippines were also on their way to help.
Two infants were among the 227 passengers, more than 150 of whom were Chinese nationals. Twelve crew were on board.
The other travellers included 38 Malaysians, seven Indonesians, and six Australians as well as passengers from India, France, the US, New Zealand, Ukraine, Canada, Russia, Italy, Taiwan, the Netherlands and Austria.
The Boeing 777-200ER left Kuala Lumpur at 12.41am on Saturday (6.41pm GMT) and was last detected somewhere between 20 minutes and two hours into its flight.
Vietnamese media reported an admiral as saying that the plane "could have" crashed in Vietnamese maritime territory, but Malaysia's acting transport minister denied reports that it had been found south of a Vietnamese island.
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