Front page › Most Read › In pictures › News › Football › 3AM › Sport › TV › Opinion › Lifestyle › Money › News World news Missing Malaysian Airlines flight Live: Search for missing Malaysia Airlines moves to west of peninsula as records show it flew another 350 miles after disappearing 18 March 2014 06:23 PM By Chris Richards, Ben Burrows, Richard Hartley-Parkinson Officials believe they have made the first major breakthrough since the jet carrying 239 people vanished Pouria Nour Mohammad Mehrdad is second from the left. The young man on the far right is believed to have travelled with him on the missing plane. Automatic updatesONOFF 6:23PM After 10 days of fruitless searching, a new problem looms for investigators. The battery life of the black box - which holds the key to understanding what happened to flight MH370 - is around one month. Therefore if the plane isnt found in the next 20 days or so, all hope of knowing for definite what happened will be lost. 5:45PM newsIcon The holiday islands of the Maldives sit roughly halfway between Malaysia and Somalia on the east coast of Africa. Its around 2,000 miles from Malaysia which is right at the edge of how far we believe flight MH370 could have travelled based on the amount of fuel it had left. 5:38PM BREAKING NEWS People living in the Maldives claim to have seen a low flying jet going over one of the islands on the morning of the disappearance of flight MH370. Local website Haveeru says several residents report the sighting at around 6.15am on March 8. They said that it was a white aircraft, with red stripes across it – which would roughly match a Malaysia Airlines aircraft. Ive never seen a jet flying so low over our island before. Weve seen seaplanes, but Im sure that this was not one of those. I could even make out the doors on the plane clearly, said an eyewitness. Its not just me either, several other residents have reported seeing the exact same thing. Some people got out of their houses to see what was causing the tremendous noise too. 5:33PM Beijings ambassador to Malaysia, Huang Huikang, said China had ruled out the possibility of terrorist activity by any of its 154 citizens on the plane. Huang said China had conducted meticulous investigations into all the [Chinese] passengers, and did not find any evidence of sabotage activity. 5:04PM The BBC is reporting that the search for flight MH370 is being hampered by red tape in Indonesia. The authorities are refusing to let planes over their territory, it is claimed/ The BBCs Rupert Wingfield Hayes in Kuala Lumpur said scheduled search flights on Tuesday were abandoned because of the international bureaucracy. 4:28PM Berita Harian, a Malaysian newspaper, is reporting that Captain Zaharie Shahs homemade flight simulator had software for five practice runways around the Indian Ocean. The simulator was taken away from the pilots upmarket home last Saturday. It has been reassembled at police headquarters so it can be examined by investigators. According to Harian, software on the simulator included practice landings at runways in the Maldives, three in India and Sri Lanka and another belonging to a US military base in Diego Garcia. All have a runway length of 1,000 metres, a source told the Malay daily. 4:08PM Malaysias opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has criticised suggestions that Captain Shahs political beliefs have anything to do with the disappearance of flight mh370. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, he confirmed that the two are distantly related through his daughter-in-law and that he had met him at party political meetings. “There’s not a shred of evidence to suggest any uncanny action by him or by me,” the opposition leader said. 3:19PM The UK military is ready to consider requests for help in Malaysia in its search for the missing jet. Chief of Defence Staff General Sir Nick Haughton spoke to his counterpart in Malaysia, the Ministry of Defence said. A spokesman said that Gen Houghton did not offer the use of any specific piece of equipment or military unit, but made clear Britain was ready to help if it was feasible to do so. No request has yet been received from Malaysia. 3:03PM Several Japanese planes and an American aircraft have lost several hours of flying time because of red tape preventing them from taking off. They are waiting for Indonesia to give the go ahead for foreign planes fly over their territory, according to the BBC. They were due to fly south of Java, but that has not happened showing how politics can effect the continuing search mission. 2:15PM newsIcon This interactive map shows the vast areas covered by different satellites and the countries that they belong to. By far the most coverage, the green blocks, comes from Nasa while European satellites, smaller blue blocks, are also covering the search area. Meanwhile the smaller yellow blocks are from DigitalGlobe - the power behind Tomnod which was used as a crowd-sourcing platform to help in the search. If you zoom in to the area around the Malaysian peninsula, you can see the white boxed area where the first search was focused. The satellite activity above the South China Sea shows the high volume of data that was collected from the region in the first few days of the search. load more posts Share Follow Related Topics FLIGHT MH370MISSING MALAYSIAN AIRLINES FLIGHTMALAYSIA AIRLINES Related Articles FBI fears four passengers on Malaysian terror jet used stolen passports MISSING MALAYSIAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 8 days ago Interpol fuming that they could slide through security checks with passports registered as stolen Tasteless domain name for website dedicated to missing Malaysia Airlines flight for sale on eBay MALAYSIA AIRLINES 9 days ago The address mh370, which reflects the flight number, appears to have been bought up AFTER the flight disappeared Popular in News Live: Search for missing Malaysia Airlines moves to west of peninsula as records show it flew another 350 miles after disappearing Teenager died from cervical cancer after being refused smear test because she was too young to get disease Missing flight MH370 live: Hull student believed to be on Malaysia Airlines plane Live: Missing Malaysia Airlines plane was deliberately flown at 5,000ft to avoid radars Crew of missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 died heroically trying to save the plane from a fire From around the web Miss Universe rolls car at Australian Grand Prix (Drive.au) 10 Things You Likely Didn’t Know About Your Period (ActiveBeat) Recommended by Front page Most Read In pictures News Football 3AM Sport TV Opinion Lifestyle Money MobileDesktop Cookie Policy Privacy Statement Terms and Conditions
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