two pilots, 10 flight attendants and 227 passengers of 14 different nationalities. They included Chinese labourers and package- holiday tourists going home, a group of calligraphers, a stuntman who was working on a new Netflix series, and 20 employees of a US electronics company.
Five were children.At 01:01 MH370 reached its cruising altitude of 35,000ft as it flew north over the South China Sea. At 01:19, as it left Malaysian airspace and crossed into Vietnam’s, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the captain, radioed back the last words heard from the flight: ‘Good night Malaysian Three Seven Zero.’Normal procedure is that the aircraft should then declare its presence to Vietnamese air traffic control but no call came.
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