Muktesh Mukherjee, 42, and Xiaomo Bai, 37, are the Canadian couple confirmed to have been passengers aboard the missing Malaysian airliner.
Formerly from Montreal, Quebec, they were based in Beijing where Mukherjee is vice-president of Chinese operations for Xcoal Energy and Resources. The company is a coal supplier from Pennsylvania in the United States.
Xiaomo Bai has been studying at the Beijing Foreign Studies University.
The couple has two young boys.
The plane was carrying 239 people from 14 countries.
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