A very long oil slick of 12-mile spotted between Malaysia and Vietnam on Saturday afternoon is thought to be the first sign that a missing Malaysia Airlines flight went down in the waters between southernmost Vietnam and northern Malaysia, Vietnam’s director of civil aviation has hinted.
Vanished Malaysian Airlines flight was carrying 239 people which including one infant, 38 Malaysians, seven Indonesians, six Australians and five Indians, the airline said.
Also three US citizens including an infant, four from France, two passengers each from New Zealand, Ukraine, and Canada, and one each from Italy, the Netherlands, Russia and Austria, the airline said in a statement.
Foreign Ministry officials in Rome and Vienna later said names of two nationals listed as passengers matched passports reported stolen in Thailand.
The airline's statement also said the carrier was working with authorities in the search efforts to locate the aircraft.
The aircraft went missing early on Saturday, on a flight from Malaysia to Beijing. Vietnamese air force planes report spotting a pair of large oil slicks in the area where the Boeing 777 disappeared.
Mr. Thanh said the oil on the surface of the water was somewhat closer to Vietnam than Malaysia, at the mouth of the shallow Gulf of Thailand.
The last coordinates automatically transmitted by the aircraft were from on the Malaysian side near the midpoint between the two countries, when the plane appeared to be in stable flight at 35,000 feet.
Mr. Aziz bin Kaprawi, Malaysian Deputy Minister of Transport, said authorities had not received any distress signals from the aircraft. a Boeing 777-200 flight that vanished after taking off from Kuala Lumpur early Saturday morning, bound for Beijing, where it was to arrive at 6:30 a.m.
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