Malaysia Airlines confirms the MH370 flight lost contact with Subang air traffic control at 1.30am after it took off from Kuala Lumpur. Families waiting at Beijing airport are told passengers will not arrive.
Search radius widens to 50 nautical miles from 20 nautical miles of the last-known position of the plane. More countries join the search and rescue operation including China, U.S., Singapore and the Philippines.
The Malaysian search team found a "yellowish" oil slick about 10 miles (16km) long, some 20 nautical miles (37km) south of the last point of contact of MH370.
The crew from a Vietnamese jet reported seeing a “possible life raft” floating in the sea around 250 miles off the country’s southern coast, only for search and rescue helicopters to later find it was no more than “a moss-covered cap of cable reel”.
Interpol confirms two passengers had used stolen passports: one Austrian, one Italian. It was checking whether others aboard had used false identity documents. The passports stolen in Phuket, Thailand few months earlier.
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