In the other big news story that we have been following -- the missing Malaysia Airlines plane --  the family of Muktesh Mukherjee, a passenger on board the missing plane, are praying that disaster has not struck twice.

The 42-year-old's grandfather, a former Indian government minister, was killed in a plane crash on the outskirts of New Delhi in 1973. "Miracles do happen. We pray it will happen this time and Muktesh will come back to us,' his uncle Manoj Mukherjee told AFP in Kolkata. Read