Malaysia Airlines plane missing: How do aircraft vanish?

Name: Malaysia Airlines plane missing: How do aircraft vanish?
Uploaded: 2014-03-08T22:45:59.000Z
Duration: 1 min 32 s
Description: Search operations are continuing in the South China Sea, 24 hours after a Malaysian Airlines plane disappeared on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

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Search operations are continuing in the South China Sea 24 hours after a Malaysian Airlines plane disappeared on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

How could an airliner suddenly disappear from radar screens with no apparent warning?

Simon Clemison reports.

Asia

8 March 2014