Missing MAS flight: Unofficial reports say flight crashed into South China Sea


BREAKING NEWS:

PETALING JAYA: Unofficial reports in the Vietnamese and Chinese media have quoted the Vietnamese Navy as saying that flight MH370 went down in the South China Sea.

Leading Vietnamese daily Tuoi Tre and Chinese news agency Xinhua have quoted Navy Admiral Ngo Van Phat, Commander of the Region 5, military radar as saying that the plane crashed into the sea at a location 153 miles South of Phu Quoc island.

It is reported by Al-Jazeera that rescue ships have been despatched to the area.



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