This photo provided by Laurent Errera taken Dec. 26, 2011, shows the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER that disappeared from air traffic control screens Saturday, taking off from Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport in France. AP/Laurent Errera
AUSTIN, Texas鈥擜 United States technology company says 20 of its employees were aboard the Malaysia Airlines plane that went missing over the South China Sea.
Jacey Zuniga, a spokeswoman for Freescale Semiconductor, says 12 Malaysian and eight Chinese employees are 鈥渃onfirmed passengers.鈥� She says no American citizen Freescale employees were on the flight.
鈥淎t present, we are solely focused on our employees and their families,鈥� Gregg Lowe, president and Chief Executive Officer of Freescale says in a statement. 鈥淥ur thoughts and prayers are with those affected by this tragic event.鈥� The company, the statement reads, has assembled a team of counselors for those impacted by the tragedy.
Flight MH370, a Boeing 777 airplane, was last seen on radar at 1:30 a.m. (1730 GMT Friday) above the waters where the South China sea.
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