26 Countries searching for the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 Boeing 777
Dozens of ships and aircraft have failed to find any piece of the
missing Malaysia Airways Boeing 777 that vanished more than few days ago
above waters south of Vietnam. Malaysian maritime officials have found some oil slicks in the South
China Sea and have sent a sample to a lab to see if it came from the
plane.
Hundreds of distraught relatives were gathered in a hotel in Beijing,
waiting to be flown to Malaysia. Of the 227 passengers, two-thirds were
Chinese. There were also 38 passengers and 12 crew members from
Malaysia, and others from elsewhere in Asia, Europe and North America. As hope fades for relatives of the 239 people who were aboard Flight
MH370, attention is focused on how two passengers managed to board the
aircraft using stolen passports.
Ibrahim Mat Zin, a local well-known "bomoh" (the Malay
term for a shaman), holds two coconuts as he performs a ritual to help
finding the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 at Kuala Lumpur
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Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Crash Map
Police CCTV images of an Iranian suspect, Pouria Nour
Mohammad Mehrdad, who was travelling on Flight MH370 with a stolen
Austrian passport, and an unidentified man travelling with a stolen
Italian passport
Pouria Nour Mohammad Mehrdad (second from left) and a man who is believed to have travelled with him on Flight MH370
Major General Datuk Affendi Buang briefs the media in Kuala Lumpur
A patrol vessel of Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency searches off the Kelantan coast
Members of the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency search off the coast of Kelantan, Malaysia
A military personnel takes photos from the window of
an aircraft belonging to the Vietnamese airforce during a search and
rescue mission off Vietnam's Tho Chu island
An oil slick is seen from an aircraft belonging to the Vietnamese airforce, off Vietnam's Tho Chu island
Military personnel work in the cockpit of a helicopter
belonging to the Vietnamese Air Force during a search and rescue
mission off Vietnam's Tho Chu island
A relative of a passenger onboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is surrounded by the media at Lidu Hotel in Beijing
Journalists attempt to interview a distraught relative
of a passenger on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 at Beijing Capital
International Airport
Arni Marlina shows a family picture on her mobile
phone, at a hotel in Putrajaya. Marlina's stepbrother Muhammad Razahan
Zamani (bottom R), 24, and his wife Norli Akmar Hamid, 33, were on their
honeymoon on the missing flight.
A girl lights a candle next to a message that reads "Pray for MH370" during a candlelight vigil in Kuala Lumpur
Indian sand artist Sudarshan Patnaik applies the
finishing touches to a sand sculpture on a beach in Puri, in the eastern
Indian state of Odisha
This floating object that was spotted from a Vietnamese search aircraft was originally thought to be a life raft.
-By David Sim
