The flight took off from Kuala Lumpur at 12:41 a.m. and Subang Air Traffic Control lost contact at 2:40 a.m.,” Malaysia Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said in a statement Saturday morning.
“We deeply regret that we have lost all contacts with flight MH370 which departed Kuala Lumpur at 12.41 am earlier this morning bound for Beijing.
According to flight tracking website FightAware.com, the plane was at an altitude of 35,000 feet (10,668 metres) and cruising at 539 mph (867 km/h) when contact between the aircraft and air traffic control ceased.
The last known location of the flight was was 4.7073 degrees latitude and 102.5278 longitude.