Toddler among missing family of 5
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THE 239 people on board the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 include a Chinese family of five, with the youngest member, Wang Moheng, just 11 weeks away from his second birthday.
The child, traveling with his parents and grandparents, was returning home to Beijing from a vacation.
The boy’s father works as a director at the Boston Consulting Group, while his mother, Jiao Weiwei, 32, had worked for an Internet company.
A friend said Jiao quit her job recently to care for her son at home, as she couldn’t bear to say goodbye to her son when she had to go to work.
“She often said she would smell her baby from head to toe,” said a former colleague, recalling the devoted mom.
“People at the company really loved her.”
A dozen artists on an art exchange program to Malaysia are also aboard the plane.
Meng Gaosheng, a member of the Chinese Calligraphy Artists’ Association, had led a delegation to an art exchange in Malaysia on Wednesday.
His calligraphy work was in great demand at domestic auctions in October, according to media reports.
Memetjan Abra is among the dozen artists aboard the plane. His wife, Nur Guli, said they spoke briefly on Friday night, before the flight left Kuala Lumpur.
“He is a good painter, and a good husband and father,” she said, adding that she would fly to Beijing today. The couple has a 9-year-old daughter.
Also on the flight is Zhang Meng, 28, who works for the All-China Federation of Trade Unions.
She took the plane back from a business trip in Kuala Lumpur, said a colleague. Zhang got married last year.
Wang Dongcheng, a professor at China Youth University for Political Sciences, who arrived in Beijing yesterday after a trip to Nepal, said on his Sina Weibo account microblog account that nine of his 22 traveling companions are aboard the missing plane.
“Three of them took a small plane with me and my wife to fly over Mount Everest. They took a lot of lovely photos for us. It was a sad goodbye when we parted for our separate flights,” Wang said.
Chinese tech firm ZTE has also confirmed that one of its employee, Li Yanlin, is on the missing plane.
The company said it has set up a team to support Li’s family, adding that it was praying for the safety of Li and all the others on board.
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