Missing flight MH370: Family briefly connects to Chinese passenger's phone and hopes to trace signal
A family member of a Chinese passenger on board Flight MH370 heard a ringtone when he tried calling his mobile phone, and hopes that they could try to trace the signal to locate them.
The Malaysia Airlines plane on route to Beijing on Saturday,
The Malaysia Airlines plane on route to Beijing on Saturday,
Mar 6, is still missing after it lost contact with the ground.
A video clip, shared on multiple social media channels like SgShare and LiveLeak, shows a segment on Beijing Television's news where a man calls his elder brother on his phone.
The latter was one of the 239 on board the flight which mysteriously disappeared.
According to The Straits Times, the man who did not give his name, spoke to reporters at a Malaysia Airlines briefing in Beijing. He claimed that he made a total of three calls, but no one answered.
This sparked many speculations, that they were on land and had not crashed in the sea. Others held higher hopes that they were still alive.
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As we enter the third day of the search, desperate family members have asked Malaysia Airlines to use satellite technology to pick up the mobile phone signals of passengers before their phones run out of batteries.
A video clip, shared on multiple social media channels like SgShare and LiveLeak, shows a segment on Beijing Television's news where a man calls his elder brother on his phone.
The latter was one of the 239 on board the flight which mysteriously disappeared.
According to The Straits Times, the man who did not give his name, spoke to reporters at a Malaysia Airlines briefing in Beijing. He claimed that he made a total of three calls, but no one answered.
This sparked many speculations, that they were on land and had not crashed in the sea. Others held higher hopes that they were still alive.
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As we enter the third day of the search, desperate family members have asked Malaysia Airlines to use satellite technology to pick up the mobile phone signals of passengers before their phones run out of batteries.
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