Useful recap of Mainstream Media MSM news-link from start of the Malaysia Airlines MH370 disappearance and
passengers on board:
MSM Mainstreab Media 'The Star' is an English-language, tabloid-format newspaper in Malaysia.
Published: Sunday March 9, 2014 MYT 12:00:00 AM:
http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/03/09/19-prominent-China-artists-on-board-missing-plane/
"19 prominent China artists on board missing plane.
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The 19 artists from China who were on MH370 were part of the 35-strong delegation who attended an art exhibition themed
Chinese Dream: Red and Green Painting in Kuala Lumpur from Tuesday to Thursday."
"Most of them are old people and very professional."
All of them are very famous in China. Some of them are national-class artists while others are provincial-level artists,
REUTERS article By Noel Randewich Published Sun Mar 9, 2014 7:12pm EDT:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/09/us-malaysia-airlines-freescale-idUSBREA280T020140309
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The 20 Freescale employees, among 239 people on flight MH370, were mostly engineers and other experts working to make the company's chip
facilities in Tianjin, China, and Kuala Lumpur more efficient, said Mitch Haws, vice president, global communications and investor relations.
"These were people with a lot of experience and technical background and they were very important people," Haws said.
None of Austin, Texas-based Freescale's most senior executives were on board the Boeing Co 777-200ER airliner that vanished from radar screens
about an hour after it took off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing on Saturday.
The employees who were on board, 12 from Malaysia and eight from China, came from a range of disciplines and they were part of a broad push
by Chief Executive Officer Gregg Lowe to make Freescale more efficient and cost effective, Haws said.
Top-quality engineers are hard to come by for
chipmakers and other technology companies, and losing them can have a major impact on business, regardless of their seniority."
Wikipedia link's
About: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.:
Freescale Semiconductor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. is an American company that produces and designs embedded hardware, with 17 billion semiconductor chips
in use around the world. The company focuses on the automotive, consumer, industrial and networking markets with its product portfolio including
microprocessors, microcontrollers, digital signal processors, digital signal controllers, sensors, RF power ICs and power management ICs.
In addition, the company offers software and development tools to support product development. The company also holds an extensive patent portfolio,
including approximately 6,100 patent families. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas."
List of Freescale's products:
List of Freescale products - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The following is a partial list of Freescale Semiconductor products, including products formerly manufactured by Motorola until 2004."
"Microprocessors, Microcontrollers, Digital signal processors, MEMS Sensors, Reconfigurable compute fabric device, Software."
"ON Semiconductor, another Motorola semiconductor spinoff."
"ON Semiconductor was founded in 1999 Headquarters Phoenix, Arizona, United States.
The company was originally a spinoff of Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector.
It continues to manufacture Motorola's discrete, standard analog and standard logic devices."
"ON Semiconductor is a Fortune 1000 semiconductors supplier company. Products include power and signal management, logic,
discrete, and custom devices for automotive, communications, computing, consumer, industrial, LED lighting, medical,
military/aerospace and power applications."
ON Semiconductor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of Semiconductor Fabrication Plants:
List of semiconductor fabrication plants - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Freescale's KL-03 micro-chip Article by MSM
http://www.cnet.com/ (CBS Interactive Inc.):
http://www.cnet.com/news/freescales-internet-of-things-controller-chip-cut-down-to-size/
Freescale Semiconductor, a maker of small processors called microcontrollers, has a tinier
new one it hopes will help companies jump aboard the "Internet of things" bandwagon.
Freescale Semiconductor's Kinetis KL03 processor, shown here nestled inside a dimple of a golf ball.
Its size makes Freescale's chip "the world's smallest ARM-based microcontroller," the company said.
ARM licenses chip designs to many manufacturers, an approach that simplifies programming because
software more likely can be reused to reach different devices.
Freescale announced the ship at the Embedded World Conference show in Nuremburg, Germany.
Official PDF Official
Malaysia Airlines MH370 Passenger Manifest:
http://www.malaysiaairlines.com/con...Airlines Flight MH 370 Passenger Manifest.pdf
"There were 227 passengers, including 153
Chinese and 38
Malaysians, according to the manifest.
Seven were children.
Other passengers came from
Iran, the US, Canada, Indonesia, Australia, India, France, New Zealand, Ukraine, Russia, Taiwan and the
Netherlands. Two Iranian men were found to be travelling on false passports. But further investigation revealed 19-year-old Pouria Nour Mohammad Mehrdad and Delavar Seyed Mohammadreza, 29 were headed for Europe via Beijing, and
had no apparent links to terrorist groups.
Among the Chinese nationals was a delegation of
19 prominent artists who had attended an exhibition in Kuala Lumpur.
Malaysia Airlines said there were four passengers who checked in for the flight but did not show up at the airport."
Wikipedia link about MH370 Passengers and Crew:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370#Passengers_and_crew
"Malaysia Airlines released the names and nationalities of the 227 passengers and 12 crew members, based on the flight manifest, later
modified to include two Iranian passengers travelling on stolen passports."
"Passengers:
152 of the 227 passengers were Chinese citizens, including
a group of 19 artists with six family members and four staff returning from a calligraphy
exhibition of their work in Kuala Lumpur; 38 passengers were Malaysian.
The remaining passengers were from 13 different countries.
Of the total, 20 were employees of Freescale Semiconductor, a company based in Austin, Texas
12 of whom were from Malaysia and 8 from China.
One passenger who worked as a flight engineer for a Swiss jet charter company was briefly suspected as potential hijacker because he was thought to have the relevant skill set."
MSM Releasing even more background-info about the passengers would help ... :seeya:
