12.41am: Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH370 takes off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA). The Boeing 777-200 was ferrying 239 people on board, including two infants, and 12 crew members. 38 on board are reported to be Malaysian.
2.40am: Radar
contact is lost in Vietnamese airspace. The aircraft did not enter
airspace controlled by China and did not make contact with Chinese
controllers. (http://bit.ly/1fMqKhn)
6.40am: Flight was scheduled to arrive in Beijing, China.
12pm: In a press conference in Sepang MAS group chief executive officer Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said that the passengers of flight MH370 are of 14 different nationalities.
The
passengers are made up of 153 Chinese nationals, 38 Malaysians, 12
Indonesians, six Australians, three French, four Americans, two from
Ukraine, New Zealand and Canada respectively and one each from Russia,
Taiwan, Italy, Netherlands and Austria. The flight was a codeshare with
China Southern Airlines (http://bit.ly/1lHDpEX).
12.30pm:
MAS says the last point of contact with flight MH370 was approximately
120 nautical miles east of Kota Baru at the South China Sea.(http://bit.ly/1ff0Kp9)
12.50pm: A Vietnamese rescue official denies that the signal of the missing Malaysian plane MH370 has been detected (http://bit.ly/MVD6H8).
1pm: China dispatches two maritime rescue ships to the South China Sea to help in search and rescue operations for the missing flight MH370 (http://bit.ly/1ozmXDx).
1.30pm:
A statement posted on the official Vietnamese government website said
that the plane lost contact near Ca Mau province airspace as it was
preparing to transfer to Ho Chi Minh City air traffic control. The
transfer never took place (http://bit.ly/1qhLZuJ)
2pm: The passenger list of all onboard is made publicly available (http://bit.ly/1cJqx8R).
2.20pm: Unofficial reports in Vietnamese and Chinese media have quoted the Vietnamese Navy as saying that flight MH370 went down in the South China Sea. Rescue ships have been dispatched to the area, says Al-Jazeera (http://bit.ly/MVMafc).
2.20pm: Unofficial reports in Vietnamese and Chinese media have quoted the Vietnamese Navy as saying that flight MH370 went down in the South China Sea. Rescue ships have been dispatched to the area, says Al-Jazeera (http://bit.ly/MVMafc).
3.00pm:
The Malaysian Navy are in communication with its Vietnamese counterpart
to verify reports of the sighting of the wreckage of flight MH370 near
an island in southern side of the country (http://bit.ly/1g7UnIP).
MAS asks for two next of kin of each passenger to be at KLIA at 6pm Saturday (http://bit.ly/1cJtne4).
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