In the Details of Passengers’ Lives, Signs of Hope and Prosperity 
 
 BEIJING — It was one of his first trips abroad, maybe even the first. They bid farewell to Moheng’s family in Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital, with the words, “See you in smoggy Beijing.” 
 
 The family of five was among 239 passengers and crew members to have vanished with Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which left Kuala Lumpur early Saturday for Beijing but never arrived. The Saturday flight was supposed to be his final one to China's capital. Over and over, they asked Malaysia Airlines employees what had happened to their loved ones, only to get the same answer: No one knows. We know you're hurting just as much, and we're praying for you," he said. James Wood said that his brother is divorced and that one of his sons attends Texas A&M University and that another is an alumnus of that university. But, "with a situation like this, when a plane just disappears ... it leaves you with a lot of questions," he said. He also pointed out that, along with his brother, members of hundreds of other families were aboard Flight MH370.
– As 40 ships and 34 planes from nine different countries continue the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a Texas family is praying for 50-year-old Philip Wood, one of three Americans among the 239 people on board. Wood, a technical storage exec with IBM, had been transferred from Beijing to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, reports WFAA, and had returned to Texas to visit family before relocating. The AP reports his Saturday flight was supposed to be his final one to China's capital, where he had planned to wrap up loose ends before moving. Wood is divorced with two sons, one a student at Texas A&M University and the other an alumnus of that school. "Do you want to know how it feels to lose a son at the age of 50?" his mother says. "It's devastating. But, I know in my heart that Philip's with God and I plan to be there with him because I have a deep faith in my God." The two other Americans listed on the flight manifest are Nicole Meng, 4, and Yan Zhang, 2, and it's not clear whether they may have been traveling with American parents with dual citizenship, the New York Times notes. The Times, meanwhile, looks at some of the other passengers aboard the flight: They hailed from at least 13 countries and included a Chinese family of five who took a vacation to get away from Beijing's bad air; a 20-member group of Chinese calligraphers and painters who had been recognized at a Kuala Lumpur arts center; and a Canadian couple on their way back to their home in Beijing—and two young sons—after a romantic holiday in Vietnam.