Posted on 03/08/2014 6:51:24 PM PST by Astute
AUSTIN, Texas -- An Austin, Texas, technology company says 20 of its employees were aboard the Malaysia Airlines plane that went missing over the South China Sea.
Jacey Zuniga, a spokeswoman for Freescale Semiconductor, says 12 Malaysian and 8 Chinese employees are "confirmed passengers." She says no American citizen Freescale employees were on the flight.
It is not uncommon to have several workers from the same company/industry to be on the same flight. While attending trade shows, I have seen many of the same company and or associates on one flight. They simply are traveling to one place and happened onto the same flight. It is very usual in the trade association industry.
Flying commercial ?
I checked out their web site, they are worldwide, with companies in Israel, India, Malaysia, China, etc etc
Funny you mention that there are reports of an IBM exec on board
I was an HR staffer for CoWorx at a Foxxconn cell phone refurbishing plant here in Texas, so I’m aware of that. I’m bemoaning that more US citizens and naturals don’t get those jobs.
Actually, I prefer the gooberment to not be involved, for safety reasons at the very least. The regulations which SHOULD exist must be enforced with ZERO conflict of interest.
Yes, Philip Wood worked for IBM
The Wood family has released a statement to KXAS-TV (NBC5), which is copied below:
Philip Wood was a man of God, a man of honor and integrity. His word was gold. Incredibly generous, creative and intelligent, Phil cared about people, his family, and above all, Christ. Though our hearts are hurting, we know so many families around the world are affected just as much as us by this terrible tragedy. We ask for your prayers, not only for ourselves, but for all involved during this difficult time.
As a family, we are sticking together through Christ to get through this. Thank you for your understanding.
The Wood Family.
What a terrific statement! Thanks for posting...
It sounds very possible that the plane was shot down, due to the suddenness of the situation with no distress call. We will probably never know who was onboard that someone wanted killed bad enough to down the plane. Kind’a like Ron Brown’s airplane crash, only less obvious.
The are a divestiture of the Semiconductor Products Sector of Motorola for 2004. They have 23000 employees. I would bet a significant chunk of the employees are third country nationals.
Not likely, at 35,000 feet.
Maybe a bomb, but not shot down at that altitude. Whatever happened seems to happened suddenly and catastrophically.
The 35,000 feet factor is a good point unless a fighter jet shot it down.
Probably targeted because of 20 US Plant employees...even if overseas. I think terrorism, not espionage. Semiconductors have a lot of competition, why that one? It’s not exactly rocket science either.
They open branches in other countries and cater more to the locality in product. It is not shocking. In fact, it happens IN the US too, so it goes both ways. In fact, I’m now interviewing with a very small American office of an Italian company. Guess who the majority customers are? They like the workers to be locals to blend more with their market and respond to local needs.
My wife works for a huge Italian multinational which is the leader in its industry.
Shot down accidentally by one of the regional navies? If so, the country involved is gonna take a lot of flak, especially if it’s China.
It’s a large company with locations all over. They could very well have been here for training or a conference or something.
Thats funny. There are lots of Foreign works that work for American companies in the USA.
We have 50+ employees in the Philippines. Would you rather have them come here, act like spoiled illegals and vote Dummycrat?
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