US-based firm's workers on plane headed to meeting
Originally published: March 9, 2014 1:44 PM
Updated: March 9, 2014 3:39 PM
By The Associated Press
A sign for Freescale Semiconductor is seen in this photo from Austin, Texas on Sunday March 9, 2014. The Austin-based technology
company says its 20 employees on board a missing Malaysia Airlines flight were en route to a business meeting in China. Freescale Semiconductor spokeswoman Jacey Zuniga said Sunday that
the employees, 12 from Malaysia and eight from China, work at facilities in their respective countries that manufacture semiconductor chips. (AP Photo/John L. Mone) (Credit: AP)
AUSTIN, Texas – (AP) – Twenty employees of an Austin-based technology company on board the missing Malaysia Airlines flight were en route to a business meeting in China, a spokeswoman for the tech firm said Sunday.
The employees – 12 from Malaysia and eight from China –work at facilities in their respective countries that manufacture semiconductor chips, said Freescale Semiconductor spokeswoman Jacey Zuniga.
“We have several manufacturing sites in Kuala Lumpur and Tianjin, China. Those 20 employees were with those teams,” she said.
The employees were aboard Flight MH370, which lost contact with ground controllers somewhere between Malaysia and Vietnam after leaving Kuala Lumpur early Saturday morning for Beijing. The plane was carrying 239 people.
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