BALTIMORE, Maryland March 12, 2014 (3:50 pm) - A Chinese Newspaper has reported that United States military personnel based in Thailand overheard a transmission very early Saturday morning from the missing Malaysian Airlines Jet in which a crewman radioed that the Plane's cabin 'faced disintegration' and they were desperately seeking a location for an emergency landing. The report was printed in The China Times later last Saturday and no follow-up is known. The Jet, with a total of 239 people on board, disappeared last Saturday between one and two hours into its flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, China. A search that grows increasingly wider in scope has been underway since then with no known results. The search is being directed by the Malaysian Government, which is having trouble interpreting a military radar reading that may have had the airplane flying due west, which is significantly off course, before that radar also lost the Jet over the Straits of Malacca about one hour later than it was lost on civilian radar. Prior to the report in the Chinese newspaper, the last known transmission of the crew took place at 1:20 am, when they radioed air traffic controllers at Subang that all was well. Moments later, the plane disappeared from their radar. The Malaysian Military says it lost the plane at 2:15 am. There are reports that the plane was also seen somewhat later than this by witnesses on the ground.
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