Tuoi Tre, a leading daily in Vietnam, reports that the Vietnamese Navy has confirmed the Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing crashed into the ocean. According to Navy Admiral Ngo Van Phat, Commander of the Region 5, military radar recorded that the plane crashed into the sea at a location 153 miles South of Phu Quoc island.
Altogether, 239 passengers & crew, from 14 different nationalities, including two infants. Passengers were from:
1. China – 152 plus 1 infant
2. Malaysia – 38
3. Indonesia – 12
4. Australia – 7
5. France – 3
6. United States of America – 3 passengers plus 1 infant
7. New Zealand – 2
8. Ukraine – 2
9. Canada – 2
10. Russia – 1
11. Italy – 1
12. Taiwan – 1
13. Netherlands – 1
14. Austria – 1
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