USC Grad Student On Board Malaysian Airlines Flight 370
Several countries have joined the search for the missing Boeing 777 since it mysteriously lost all contact last Saturday.
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Qiao's Facebook page shows several updates expressing her excitement at graduating from USC in 2012 and her return to hometown Harbin.
Her LinkedIn page shows she previously worked at the USC Bookstore and Campus Housing. In 2013, she listed her current occupation as a Reservoir Engineer at Shell Oil Company in Beijing.
Lusha Li, head of media relations of China and North Asia of Shell Oil Company confirmed with LA Weekly that though they would not reveal any identities, one of their employees had been on the plane.
A Chinese micro-blogging site published the names and brief biographies of the Chinese passengers aboard MH370. The article references a woman by the name of "Xing Qiao" born in 1987 and originally from Harbin. It goes on to describe that she attended Jilin University, graduated from the University of Southern California and works for Shell.
The roster also shows more than two-thirds of the passengers are of Chinese decent.
UPDATE: USC's Chinese Student and Scholar Association issues a statement on their Facebook Page:
On behalf of all Chinese students and scholars of the USC, let us pray for the lives you, and like all South students riding high out of the campus, dawn but MH370 you have too many dreams, only starting, but not reached according to the Chinese Consulate General in Los Angeles News, Xing Qiao, USC-2012 oil management professional Alumni took the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.
Let us pray together, Xing Qiao and others 238 passengers safe return!
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