Malaysian - Kan ha havarert utenfor Vietnam

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(CNN) -- A missing Malaysia Airliner carrying 229 people crashed off the southern coast of Vietnam, Vietnamese and Chinese state media reported Saturday, both citing Vietnam's military.

But Malaysia has no information that any wreckage has been found of the missing plane and no confirmation of a crash, acting transport minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein told journalists Saturday.

The reports came hours after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, disappeared.

Air traffic controllers lost contact with the aircraft about 2:40 a.m. local time (1:40 p.m. ET Friday), Malaysia Airlines Vice President of Operations Control Fuad Sharuji said on CNN's "AC360."

"At the moment we have no idea where this aircraft is right now," Sharuji said.

Tuoi Tre, a leading daily in Vietnam, reported that the Vietnamese navy confirmed the plane crashed into the ocean. According to navy Adm. Ngo Van Phat, a regional commander, military radar recorded that the plane crashed into the sea south of Phu Quoc island. The People's Daily, Chinese Communist Party's official newspaper, reported the same information.

China deployed two rescue ships to the South China Sea on Saturday as the search intensified, state-run broadcaster CCTV said