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The majority of the passengers (152 of 227) were Chinese citizens, which included a group of 19 artists with 6 family members and 4 staff, returning from a calligraphy exhibition of their work in Kuala Lumpur; 38 passengers were Malaysian. The remaining passengers came from 13 different countries.[122] Of these, 20 were employees of Freescale Semiconductor, a company based in Austin, Texas – 12 were from Malaysia and 8 from China.[123]

Although it is highly unlikely, I think everyone is hoping they are all alive somewhere :(

To steal an airline without someone being able to track it for this long would require the skills of John Galt and Ragnar D. I'm guessing it probably was stolen, but this would require exceptional talent.

Where can you go now that NSA wouldn't be able to track you? It would required a Galtish invisibility cloak. I do know some of the physics necessary to make something like that happen, but to pull it off, that is out of my league. Once again, I feel like Quentin Daniels, Galt's eventual assistant.

Or supposedly did we don't know yet. Anyway I don't know if we should be joking about those people going to Galt's Gulch due to the fact hat around 300 people died. While it would have been great if they did go to the Gulch, people still died.