update for like from antaranews.com that A Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 239 passengers and 12 members of the cabin lost contact with air traffic control officers on Saturday morning . When it lost contact , the plane was flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing , the airline said in a statement .
" Malaysia Airlines is currently working with the authorities who have activated the search teams and their rescuers to locate the aircraft , " the statement said .MH 370 flight using a Boeing B777 - 200 was left Kuala Lumpur on Friday at 12:21 local time ( Saturday, at 1:21 pm ) and was due to land in Beijing on Saturday at 6:30 ( 5:30 GMT) .
The airline said the flight lost contact with air traffic control at 2:40 pm local time , only approximately two hours after the start of flying .Chinese television station , CCTV , said that as many as 160 Chinese citizens were on the plane , according to Weibo page .
State television also reported that there is no information about whether the plane crashed in the waters of China .Chinese news agency , Xinhua , reported radar contact with the flight was lost when the plane was in airspace Vietnam .
If the plane was found crashed , it would mark the second fatal accident that occurred on a Boeing 777 aircraft in less than a year , since the jet was put into use in 1995 .Last summer , a Boeing 777 operated by Asiana Airlines emergency landing in San Francisco , killing three passengers .Boeing said it was aware of reports that Malaysia Airlines plane disappeared and were watching the situation , but did not provide further comment .