From March 9: Sister of MH370 passenger calls brother and phone keeps ringing

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17. How about 20 tech workers onboard the plane?

US-Based Firm's Workers on Plane Headed to Meeting
AUSTIN, Texas March 9, 2014 (AP)
Associated Press

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.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/austin-tech-firm-20-employees-missing-plane-22835999

There were also nine management employees of the same company going to the same meeting that took a different plane.