Malaysia Airlines Incident in Grade Five Volume II Oral Communication

20 14 At 2: 40am on March 8th, Malaysia Airlines said it lost contact with a Boeing 777-200 with 239 people on board. The flight number of the plane is MH370, which was originally scheduled to fly from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The plane should have arrived in Beijing at 6: 30 on March 8, 20 14 Beijing time, and lost contact with the control center at 2: 40 am on March 8, 20 14 Malaysia local time. Malaysia Airlines has launched a rescue and contact mechanism to find the plane. The lost passenger plane carried 227 passengers (including two babies) and 12 crew members. Among them, there are 154 people in China (including 153 people in Chinese mainland, including 152 people in adults, 1 person in infants, and 1 person in Taiwan Province Province, China). The reason for the loss is under investigation. On the afternoon of March 24th, 2065438 10, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib announced in Kuala Lumpur that Malaysia Airlines lost flight MH370 crashed in the South Indian Ocean.