Posted on 03/11/2014 2:47:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Family members and friends of Chinese passengers on a missing Malaysia Airlines flight expressed mounting frustration as the international search for the Beijing-bound aircraft widened.
Amid the public furor, China's state-run media lashed out at the Malaysian authorities and the national airline over their handling of the missing jetliner with 153 Chinese on board.
Colleagues of some of the Chinese among 227 passengers aboard flight MH370 say they have been unable to get through on the airline's external contact number since the plane disappeared from radar somewhere between Malaysia and Vietnam after leaving the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on Saturday.
"I have been trying to call Malaysia Airlines ... all weekend but it's hard to get through," Zheng Wenshan, whose Chinese colleagues at a painting and calligraphy exhibit in Kuala Lumpur are among those missing, was quoted as saying by Radio Free Asia. "Nobody picks up on the weekend."
"I haven't been able to get through this whole time," Zheng said, still hoping for good news about the other members of his group, whom he last saw at Kuala Lumpur's International Airport before he boarded separate flight home to Shanghai after the event.
"I still want them to come home, and I hope every day that they will trace [the plane]," he said. "But the current situation means I am no longer confident."
Malaysia Airlines said a response coordination center will be established once the aircraft is located. The airline was also expected to fly relatives of the passengers from Beijing to Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday.
While the desperate search for the Boeing 777 jet expanded across a 50-nautical-mile (92-kilometer) radius area around where the plane was last contacted, no definitive traces of wreckage or passengers who were en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing have been sighted. Xinhua quoted
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Hey China! Look in Tehran!
It wouldn’t surprise me if they were the ones who splashed it.
Let China fight the “War of Terror” (yes I put in “of” instead of “on” Terror...)
They would at least get results because something tells me they wouldn’t bind the hands of their soldiers like they used to bind the feet of their women...
ISLAM CHINA! ISLAM! Look at ISLAM! Just sayin’...
Is it in China's interest to see that the truth of what happened to this plane gets out?
E.g., in TWA 800, it was in the interest of the US gov't to cover up the truth, so we were given the story that it was a spontaneous fuel tank explosion.
Interesting theory. Maybe it was a Chinese dissident?
The Malaysians are BSing about something. None of it makes sense.
This just in from MSNBC: George Bush responsible for MH370 crash. /sarc
Iran is a scorge to all who live
I doubt the Chinese “splashed” the plane.
If it was a terrorist attack it was probably directed against the PRC which has been sticking it’s bridge-less nose into everyone’s business in that part of the world. China basically claims any speck of land in South East Asia where any Chinese sailor went 1000 years ago. The Chinese are not well liked in the region.
I have been telling my Chinese friends that they should get ready for the Anti-Chinesism blow back of their actions that are going to replace that old standby Anti-Americanism
It could be Chinese Muslims. They have started acting up lately
I’m sure the Paulhroids and Alex Jones are already formulating how the jewish bankers committed this act.
If so, they went the wrong way. Stay on course, seize control on approach, and take your pick of targets in Beijing.
When has China every been squeamish about arresting dissidents and tossing them in jail for a couple of decades? If there was a dissident onboard they would have arrested him when he got to Beijing and that would be the end of it. Why wipe out an entire airplane?
There’s a thread about a major Chinese Oil & Gas guy, living in Canada, on the passenger manifest. If I’m China, and I need Freescale’s avionics diagrams, I take the plane somewhere I can confiscate the avionics data.
This is also true of Iran.
This is also true of Somalia, paid Pirate state.
Possibly why no Statesmen of any nation are addressing this. No reason to go to war over a simple Boeing designs theft, via Freescale.
I’m hoping that China has an interest in not covering up this incident. Despite being a habitual liar (like MSNBC!), China may want the truth to come out here.
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