Malaysia Airlines plane missing with more than 200 passengers on board

By Nick Toscano, Lindsay Murdoch
Updated March 8 2014 - 1:59pm, first published 1:07pm
A Malaysia Airline plane is missing with 200 passengers.
A Malaysia Airline plane is missing with 200 passengers.
An image of what is believed to be the plane involved in the incident.
An image of what is believed to be the plane involved in the incident.
Malaysia Airlines.
Malaysia Airlines.
A woman (C), believed to be the relative of a passenger onboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, cries as she talks on her mobile phone at the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, March 8, 2014. The Malaysia Airlines Boeing B777-200 aircraft carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew lost contact with air traffic controllers early on Saturday en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, the airline said in a statement. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon (CHINA - Tags: TRANSPORT DISASTER) Photo: KIM KYUNG-HOON
A woman (C), believed to be the relative of a passenger onboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, cries as she talks on her mobile phone at the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, March 8, 2014. The Malaysia Airlines Boeing B777-200 aircraft carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew lost contact with air traffic controllers early on Saturday en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, the airline said in a statement. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon (CHINA - Tags: TRANSPORT DISASTER) Photo: KIM KYUNG-HOON
REFILE CLARIFYING CAPTION

A relative of a passenger onboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 cries at the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing March 8, 2014. The Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew lost contact with air traffic controllers early on Saturday en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, the airline said in a statement. Flight MH 370, operating a Boeing B777-200 aircraft departed Kuala Lumpur at 12.21 a.m. (1621 GMT Friday) and had been expected to land in the Chinese capital at 6.30 a.m. (2230 GMT) the same day. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon (CHINA - Tags: TRANSPORT DISASTER) Photo: KIM KYUNG-HOON
REFILE CLARIFYING CAPTION A relative of a passenger onboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 cries at the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing March 8, 2014. The Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew lost contact with air traffic controllers early on Saturday en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, the airline said in a statement. Flight MH 370, operating a Boeing B777-200 aircraft departed Kuala Lumpur at 12.21 a.m. (1621 GMT Friday) and had been expected to land in the Chinese capital at 6.30 a.m. (2230 GMT) the same day. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon (CHINA - Tags: TRANSPORT DISASTER) Photo: KIM KYUNG-HOON
Lawtons
Lawtons
Feared dead: Queensland couple Catherine and Robert Lawton. Photo: Facebook
Feared dead: Queensland couple Catherine and Robert Lawton. Photo: Facebook

Search and rescue teams are trying to find a Malaysia Airlines plane that has gone missing with more than 200 passengers on board.

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