A Chinese official on Friday called for rationality over the issue of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet which disappeared last Saturday morning with 239 people on board.
A Malaysian Airlines representative said at a meeting in Beijing on Friday with relatives of Chinese passengers on flight MH730, that the jet – with 239 people on board - was equipped with four life rafts that could carry a total of 290 people.
Chinese researchers have detected a "seafloor event" near the waters between Malaysia and Vietnam, an area suspected to be linked with the missing Malaysian jetliner MH370, a university announced on Friday.
Malaysia's acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Tun Hussein (C) speaks during a news conference about the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, at Kuala Lumpur International Airport March 13, 2014.
Experts say they have detected a subsea incident in the maritime border area between Malaysia and Vietnam which occurred at 2:55:06 am local time on March 8, an hour and a half after the last contact with flight MH370.
Special: Malaysia Airlines plane missing Chinese navy vessels are carrying out a 24-hour search for the missing Malaysian plane, but no possible leads have been discovered.
Satellites picked up faint electronic pulses from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 after it went missing on Saturday, but the signals gave no information about where the stray jet was heading and little else about its fate, two sources close to the investigation said on Thursday.
In a leafy four-star resort in a Kuala Lumpur suburb, more than 50 journalists waited to tell a compelling story. Telephoto lenses bristled from palm leaves, pointing at members of Chinese families who were having breakfast on a terrace at the resort.
A new search area may be opened in the Indian Ocean as authorities try to determine what happened to the missing Malaysian jet.
China will not give up its search for the Malaysia Airlines jetliner that vanished early on Saturday as long as there is a glimmer of hope, Premier Li Keqiang vowed on Thursday.
On the sixth day after MH370 disappeared, there was still no further information on the airplane's location. Why have the authorities and airline from Malaysia changed the time of disappearance and the last-known location of the airplane again and again?
Agitated relatives of the Chinese passengers on board the missing Flight MH370, deeply distrustful of both the Malaysian government and the airline, raised more questions and demanded immediate answers during lengthy briefings on Thursday.
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