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Flight goes missing
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Flight departs at 12:41am local time and is due to land in Beijing at 6:30am, the same day. On board the Boeing 777-200ER are 227 passengers and 12 crew members.
Airline loses contact with plane between 1-2 hours after take-off.
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Two passports recorded as lost or stolen used by passengers
Radar indicates flight may have turned back from its scheduled route to Beijing before disappearing.
Interpol says at least two passports recorded as lost or stolen in its database were used by passengers, and it is “examining additional suspect passports”. -
Pilot's final words "all right, good night"
It’s revealed that the finals words spoken by one of the pilots from the cockpit of the plane to ground control were “all right, good night”.
The comment came as the plane flew from Malaysian into Vietnamese air space.
The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet expands to an area stretching from China to India. -
Satellite signals reveal MH370 flew for five hours after it disappeared
A satellite company revealed it had received signals for MH370 five hours after it disappeared, suggesting the plane was still flying and had not crashed. -
The number of countries involved in the search increased from 14 to 25
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Relatives becoming more and more frustrated
After days of frustration at the lack of confirmed information, relatives of some of the Chinese passengers on board the plane threaten to go on hunger strike. -
Huge chunks of possible wreckage spotted
Search teams spot huge chunks of possible wreckage in a remote part of the southern Indian Ocean, 1,500 miles off the western coast of Australia. One is 78ft long, the other 25ft.
Britain sends HMS Echo to join the search in the Indian Ocean. -
More "floating objects" spotted
Chinese satellite spotted a “floating object” in the southern search corridor which could be debris.
The object measured 22.5m by 13m and was 120k south west of where an Australian satellite had previously spotted two other objects. -
French satellite spots more objects
A French satellite became the third to spot objects in the southern search corridor, 1,430 miles from Perth. -
Mayalysian Prime Minister confirms the flight came down in the southern Indian Ocean
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak told families of passengers and crew of the missing Malaysian airliner that the flight “ended in the southern Indian Ocean”. -
Press conference with further details
