8. Malaysia Airlines MH370: What we know about the missing plane
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is believed to have crashed into the southern Indian Ocean with no survivors. Of the 239 people on board, six were Australians and 153 Chinese. No wreckage has been found. Here's a rundown of what we know about the doomed flight.
Where and when did the plane go missing?
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, with 239 passengers on board, was scheduled to fly from the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, to Beijing in China on Saturday March 8.
It disappeared from civilian radar screens about an hour into the scheduled six-hour flight.
At the time it was 120 nautical miles off the town of Kota Bharu, on Malaysia's east coast.
The plane's last known location was tracked using information from the on board ACARS and transponder.
On March 15, Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak said investigators believed someone on board had deliberately turned off its communications systems and diverted it well west of its planned flight path.
He said:
• The plane's systems were gradually switched off.
• It then flew westward over Malaysia before turning to the north-west.
• Such actions were "consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane".
• New data showed the last communication between the missing plane and satellites at 8:11am Malaysian time - almost seven hours after it dropped off civilian air traffic control screens.
On March 24, Mr Najib announced new satellite data from UK company Inmarsat showed the plane flew along the southern search corridor and the flight "ended in the southern Indian Ocean".
China said there remain unanswered questions and has demanded Malaysia hand over the satellite data which led to its judgement.
Since Mr Najib's announcement that the plane had crashed in the southern Indian Ocean there have been numerous sightings of objects floating in the ocean.
But none of the objects have proved to have any connection to the missing flight, and no wreckage has been found.