Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Malaysian. The remaining passengers were from 13 different countries. Twenty passengers—12 of whom were from Malaysia and eight from China—were employees of Freescale Semiconductor. By a 2007 agreement with Malaysia Airlines, Tzu Chi—an international Buddhist organisation—immediately sent specially trained teams to Beijing and Malaysia to give emotional assistance to passengers' families. The airline also sent its own team of caregivers and volunteers and agreed to bear the expense of bringing family members of the passengers to Kuala Lumpur and providing them with accommodation, medical care, and counselling. Altogether, 115 family members of the Chinese passengers flew to Kuala Lumpur. Some
Search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 last contact with ATC was later corrected to 1:19; Malaysia Airlines was notified at 2:40. The watch supervisor at Kuala Lumpur Area Control Centre—which was the air traffic control centre that was last in contact with Flight 370—activated the Kuala Lumpur Aeronautical Rescue Coordination Centre (ARCC) at 05:30, over four hours after communication was lost with Flight 370. When Malaysia Airlines issued a media statement two hours later, they claimed that they were "working with the authorities who have activated their Search and Rescue team to locate the aircraft". On 9 March, the Chief General of the Royal Malaysian Air