China searching for missing MH370 jet on own territory: Xinhua

Published March 18, 2014
Chinese relatives of passengers from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 wait for news at the Metro Park Lido Hotel in Beijing on March 17, 2014.  — Photo by AFP
Chinese relatives of passengers from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 wait for news at the Metro Park Lido Hotel in Beijing on March 17, 2014. — Photo by AFP

BEIJING: China has begun searching for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on its own territory, state media said Tuesday, citing Beijing's envoy in Kuala Lumpur.

The northern corridor projected from satellite and military radar data that the aircraft might have flown through passes through far western China, and Chinese ambassador Huang Huikang said that China had begun search and rescue operations in the area, the official news agency Xinhua said.

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