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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Screw SL" data-source="post: 16369003" data-attributes="member: 455444">Malaysia Airlines: What we know about Flight MH370                                                  <img src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/73463000/jpg/_73463165_021462190-1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />      A man looks out from a viewing gallery as  a Malaysia Airlines aircraft sits on the tarmac at Kuala Lumpur  International Airport on Sunday                           Mystery shrouds the fate  of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which has disappeared with 239  passengers and crew en route to Beijing.         Family and friends of those on board continue to be tormented  by the uncertainty, as searches are carried out at sea and officials  struggle to offer an explanation for the disappearance.      <img src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/66239000/gif/_66239292_line2.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />     Who was on board? <img src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/73463000/jpg/_73463786_021462726-1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />      Muhammad Razahan Zamani (bottom right),  24, and his wife Norli Akmar Hamid, 33, were on their honeymoon on the  missing flight. The phone is being held by his stepsister, Arni Marlina           There were 227 passengers, including 153 Chinese and 38 Malaysians, according to <a href="http://www.malaysiaairlines.com/content/dam/mas/master/en/pdf/Malaysia%20Airlines%20Flight%20MH%20370%20Passenger%20Manifest.pdf" target="_blank">the manifest</a>. Two were children. All 12 crew members were Malaysian.         Two passengers were travelling on fraudulent passports  (believed stolen earlier from an Italian and an Austrian), en route to  Europe.         <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26503469" target="_blank">Malaysia plane: Who were the passengers?</a>      <img src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/66239000/gif/_66239292_line2.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />     When was the last contact made?           Flight MH370 departed from Kuala Lumpur International Airport  at 00:41 on Saturday (16:41 GMT Friday), and was due to arrive in  Beijing at 06:30. Air traffic controllers lost contact at 01:30.         At a time as yet undisclosed, a relative reportedly managed  to call one of the passengers, who was carrying a Singapore phone.  Malaysia Airlines has repeatedly tried to call the same number but no  ringtone has been heard.      <img src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/66239000/gif/_66239292_line2.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />     Where did the jet disappear? <img src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/73452000/gif/_73452720_china_malaysia_plane_464.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />           It was flying over the South China Sea, south of Vietnam's Ca  Mau peninsula. The normal route would have taken it over Cambodia and  Vietnam before entering Chinese airspace.          No distress signal or message was sent but it is believed the  plane attempted to turn back from its scheduled path, perhaps towards  Kuala Lumpur Airport.       <img src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/66239000/gif/_66239292_line2.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />     What area does the search cover? <img src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/73463000/jpg/_73463784_021463747-1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />      A Malaysian Maritime Enforcement boat searching off north-east Malaysia          Initially the focus was on waters to the east of Malaysia, in the South China Sea.         But this has now been extended to the Straits of Malacca, along Malaysia's west coast.       <img src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/66239000/gif/_66239292_line2.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />     What are the theories for a crash?      <img src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/73463000/jpg/_73463788_021448956-1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />      A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER taking off from Narita Airport near Tokyo, Japan, last year          Common factors in plane crashes are poor weather, pilot error and airworthiness.         Weather conditions on this flight are said to have been good  and the pilot, 53, who had more than 18,000 flying hours behind him, had  been employed by the airline since 1981.         Malaysia Airlines has a good safety record and the jet, a  Boeing 777-200, is said to be one of the safest because of its modern  technology. One of the plane's wingtips was clipped in an incident while  taxiing in 2012 but it was repaired and certified as safe by Boeing  Airlines.       <img src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/66239000/gif/_66239292_line2.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />     Could it have been a terrorist attack?           The airline says it is not ruling out any theory while  officials in the US, which is sending FBI investigators, say there is no  evidence of such an attack yet.         The presence of two passengers with stolen passports is a breach of security but could relate to illegal migration.         When an Air India plane crashed in Mangalore in 2010 en route  from Dubai, with the loss of 158 lives, as many 10 fraudulent passports  were recovered.      <img src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/66239000/gif/_66239292_line2.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />     Can a modern jet just vanish without trace? <img src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/73461000/jpg/_73461742_73460045.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />                                   Simon Clemison reports on how planes can just vanish from radar                                  An Air France jet flying from Brazil to France vanished into  the Atlantic Ocean on 1 June 2009, with the loss of all 228 people on  board.         Debris was spotted the following day but it took nearly two  years to locate the flight recorders and remains of the fuselage, deep  on the ocean floor.         The waters off Vietnam and in the Malacca straits are much shallower.         Flight recorders, or "black boxes" as they are often known,  emit ultrasonic signals that can be detected underwater. Under good  conditions, the signals can be detected from several hundred miles away.</blockquote>

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