NewsContent:2014/Day 005/MSM
Source: Compiled from several chronologies, listed here
News Chronology for Wednesday, 12 March 2014
- March 12, 2014
- - Acting Transport Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein clarified a number of issues: the possibility of Flight MH370 flying pass the Melaka Strait, cooperation of foreign aviation experts and Flight MH370 manifest.
Four passengers who did not check-in were replaced by four passengers from the waiting list. All passengers boarded the aircraft. No luggage was removed from the plane.
The two Iranian men entered and left Malaysia by Flight MH370, using the same passports.
The Malaysian air force denies reports MH370 was detected on radar far west of its flight path.
Air force chief General Rodzali Daud was quoted by Malaysian media as saying that radar had last detected the plane over the Strait of Malacca off western Malaysia.
That location would have indicated the flight had banked far to the west of its intended flight path over the South China Sea.
But Mr Rodzali said he "did not make any such statements," and that newspaper Berita Harian published "what is clearly an inaccurate and incorrect report".
•The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet expands to an area stretching from China to India</A> , as authorities struggle to answer what had happened to the aircraft that vanished almost five days ago with 239 people on board. •Its revealed that the finals words spoken by one of the pilots from the cockpit of the plane to ground control were "all right, good night"</A> . The comment came as the plane flew from Malaysian into Vietnamese air space.