Malaysia Airjet News Update: Flight MH370 disappeared two days ago with 239 people on board from Kuala Lumpur going to Beijing.
"There were no reports of bad weather and no sign of why Flight MH370 would have vanished from radar screens off the coast of Vietnam about an hour after it took off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing early on Saturday morning." CBS News reported.
Telegraph reported that six planes and seven ships from Vietnam were searching for the object but nothing had so far been found according to Doan Huu Gia, the chief of search and rescue coordination centre.
Quoted from Telegraph, "Test results from an oil slick found in the same area are due back on Monday afternoon and should show if the oil comes from the plane or not.
Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, director general of Malaysian civil aviation department, told a press conference on Monday morning that hijacking had not been ruled out as a cause of the plane's disappearance and that investigators were looking at "all angles".
He said there was still no sign of the missing plane and that no signal from its black box had been detected.
Meanwhile, questions remain over how two passengers managed to board the aircraft using stolen passports. Interpol confirmed it knew about the stolen passports but said no authorities checked its vast databases on stolen documents before the Boeing jetliner departed on Saturday from Kuala Lumpur en route to Beijing with 239 people on board."
Officials said that neither of the two European was on the plane. The Italian was traveling in Thailand when he lost his passport about a year and a half ago and the Austrian was located in his native country as stated in CBS News.
"He deposited it with rental car agency, and when he returned the car it was gone," Walter Maraldi, father of the Italian man told The Associated Press from his home in the northern Emilia-Romagna region.
CBS News also reported that Austrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Weiss confirmed that a name listed on the manifest matches an Austrian passport reported stolen two years ago in Thailand. The spokesman would not confirm the Austrian traveler's identity.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 remained a mystery. Reports said that the plane lost contact with ground controllers somewhere between Malaysia and Vietnam.
Telegraph said that the jetliner apparently fell from the sky at cruising altitude in fine weather, and the pilots were either unable or had no time to send a distress signal, unusual circumstances under which a modern jetliner operated by a professional airline would crash.
The plane was flying at an altitude of 35,000 feet when it disappeared and that the pilots had reported no problem with the aircraft, Fuad Sharuji, Malaysia Airlines' vice president of operations control, told CNN.
Ahmad Jauhari, the airline CEO said, "Our team is currently calling the next of kin of passengers and crew. Focus of the airline is to work with the emergency responders and authorities and mobilize its full support. Our thoughts and prayers are with all affected passengers and crew and their family members."
