KUALA LUMPUR: The search for flight MH370 enters its ninth day on Sunday.
MARCH 8
- MAS says the Boeing 777 lost contact with air traffic control at around 1:30 am (1730 GMT Friday), about an hour after take-off from KL International Airport. Initially, authorities had put the last contact time at 2:40 am.
- Vietnam says the plane went missing near its airspace. It launches a search operation that expands into a huge international hunt in the South China Sea, involving dozens of ships and aircraft from countries including the US and Japan.
- Tearful relatives of the 153 Chinese passengers criticise Malaysia Airlines over a lack of information.
- Vietnamese planes spot two large oil slicks near the plane's last known location, but it proves a false alarm.
- It also emerges that two passengers were travelling on stolen EU passports, fuelling speculation of a terrorist attack.
MARCH 9
- Malaysia says it is probing a possible terror link to the jet's disappearance. The US sends FBI agents to assist in the investigation.
- Malaysia raises the first of several suggestions that the plane may have veered radically off-course - with the air force chief saying it may have turned back towards Kuala Lumpur for no apparent reason.
- A Vietnamese plane spots possible debris off southwest Vietnam - but this too yields no sign of the airliner.
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