A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers from 14 countries, mainly China and Malaysia, and a crew of 12 went missing off the Vietnamese coast on Saturday and was presumed to have crashed.

The plane was heading from Malaysian capital Kuala-Lumpur to Beijing.

Subang ATC had lost contact with the aircraft at 2.40am. The last known position of MH370 before it disappeared off the radar was 065515 North (longitude) and 1033443 East (latitude).

Malaysia, Vietnam and Singapore launched a joint search operation, but have not found any traces of the missing jet so far.

The families of all passengers on board MH370 are being informed.

The below table shows the latest number of passengers and their nationalities:-

Nationality	Total
China/Taiwan	153 including infant/1
Malaysia	38
India	5
Indonesia	7
Australia	6
France	4
USA	3 including infant
New Zealand	2
Ukraine	2
Canada	2
Russian	1
Italy	1
Netherlands	1
Austrian	1

Photo: Boeing 777-2H6-ER Malaysia Airlines. Archive M. van Leeuwen Z.A.P.P.