Malaysia Airlines loses contact with flight MH370
Malaysia Airlines released a media statement confirming they lost contact with flight MH370 at 2:40am local time. The craft disappeared from radars early on Saturday morning over Vietnamese airspace.
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Last 54 minutes of communication with the pilots revealed.
Transcript displays a mostly routine conversation with the two pilots. However, experts have flagged what they think are two anomalies in the exchange of communications.
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Search for plane remains futile
Search planes looking for two large floating objects detected by a satellite far off the southwest coast of Australia have so far failed to finding anything that could be from the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, Australia's acting prime minister said Friday.
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The debris was spotted in the Indian Ocean
Rescue planes have been sent to the location where two objects possibly related to the Malaysia Airlines flight were spotted earlier on Thursday, an Australian search and rescue official said. However, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority warned against expectations that this will help solve the mystery.
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Disappearance of flight MH370 has cast a light on developmental satellite technologies
European and North American teams are already working on developing systems which will provide for more accurate plotting of location and flight paths that would use satellite-based sensors, Reuters reports.
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Malysian authorities defend their handling of search operations.
Some missing passengers' relatives have threatened to hunger strike for more information.
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Theory: Missing jet landed close to the border of Afghanistan
The Pakistani government says it has no record of the craft entering its airspace, but has told the Malaysian investigators it is ready to share all available information.