Malaysia Airlines: Day 11, Prepare for worst
Day 11
Relatives of Chinese passengers aboard missing Malaysia Airlines Flight
MH370 watch a TV news program about the missing plane as they wait for
more official information at a hotel ballroom in Beijing, China, Monday,
March 17, 2014. Attention focused Sunday on the pilots of the missing
Malaysia Airlines flight after the country's leader announced findings
so far that suggest someone with intimate knowledge of the Boeing 777's
cockpit seized control of the plane and sent it off-course.
A boy plays as residents of Boeung Kak Lake prepare candles before a
Buddhist ceremony praying for the release of 21 detainees, who have been
jailed since January 3 when military police opened fire on workers
striking over low pay, killing four people, and to pray for the missing
Malaysia Airlines MH370, in Phnom Penh March 17, 2014. (REUTERS)
Family members of passengers onboard Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vote
to talk directly to Malaysian government's representatives during a
meeting with the airline's representatives at Lido Hotel in Beijing
March 17, 2014. No trace of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has been
found since it vanished on March 8 with 239 people aboard. Investigators
are increasingly convinced it was diverted perhaps thousands of miles
off course by someone with deep knowledge of the Boeing 777-200ER and
commercial navigation. (REUTERS)
Chinese relatives of passengers from the missing Malaysia Airlines
flight MH370 leave after a meeting with airline officials at the Metro
Park Lido Hotel in Beijing on March 17, 2014. An investigation into the
pilots of missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 intensified on March 17
after officials confirmed that the last words spoken from the cockpit
came after a key signalling system was manually disabled. (AFP)
Day 10
Chinese relatives of passengers from the missing Malaysia
Airlines flight MH370 leave a meetining with officials at the Metro
Park Lido Hotel in Beijing on March 16, 2014. Malaysia's leader on March
15 said communications aboard the missing jet were switched off and its
course deliberately changed by someone on board before the aircraft
disappeared a week ago, but stopped short of saying it had been
hijacked.
Chinese relatives of passengers from the missing Malaysia Airlines
flight MH370 leave a meetining with officials at the Metro Park Lido
Hotel in Beijing on March 16, 2014. Malaysia's leader on March 15 said
communications aboard the missing jet were switched off and its course
deliberately changed by someone on board before the aircraft disappeared
a week ago, but stopped short of saying it had been hijacked.
Chinese relatives of passengers from the missing Malaysia Airlines
flight MH370 leave a meetining with officials at the Metro Park Lido
Hotel in Beijing on March 16, 2014. Malaysia's leader on March 15 said
communications aboard the missing jet were switched off and its course
deliberately changed by someone on board before the aircraft disappeared
a week ago, but stopped short of saying it had been hijacked.
In this March 13, 2014 file photo, university students hold a
candlelight vigil for passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight
MH370 in Yangzhou, in eastern China's Jiangsu province. The
disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has exposed wide gaps in
how the world's airlines, and their regulators, operate. But experts
warn this isn’t likely to be one of those defining moments that lead to
fundamental changes. (AP)
Day 9
People watch a live TV feed of Malaysian Prime Minister
Najib Razak speaking at a press conference, at a hotel in Beijing on
March 15, 2014. Malaysia's leader on March 15 said communications aboard
a missing jet were switched off and its course deliberately changed by
someone on board before the aircraft disappeared a week ago, but
stopped short of saying it had been hijacked. (AFP)
In this picture taken on March 14, 2014, Subramaniam Gurusamy, 60, (R)
father of Puspanathan who was onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines
MH370 flight is consoled by friends at his home in Teluk Panglima
Garang, outside Kuala Lumpur. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said
that Malaysia was ending a search in the South China Sea for a vanished
jetliner after investigations indicated the missing plane likely
turned far to the west. (AFP)
Students pray for the passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines
flight MH370 during a class at an elementary school in Medan, North
Sumatra, Indonesia, Saturday, March 15, 2014. The Malaysian passenger
jet missing for more than a week had its communications deliberately
disabled and its last signal came about seven and a half hours after
takeoff, meaning it could have ended up as far as Kazakhstan or deep in
the southern Indian Ocean, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said
Saturday.
A young relative of a passenger aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370
reacts during a meeting with Malaysia Airlines at Lido Hotel in Beijing,
March 16, 2014. The missing Malaysian airliner appears to have been
deliberately steered off course after someone on board shut down its
communications, Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Saturday. (REUTERS)
Relatives of passengers aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 chat after
a meeting with representatives from the airline at Lido Hotel in
Beijing, March 16, 2014. The missing Malaysian airliner appears to have
been deliberately steered off course after someone on board shut down
its communications, Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Saturday.
(REUTERS)
Messages of support and hope for the passengers of the
missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 are placed at the departure hall
of Kuala Lumpur International Airport March 15, 2014. Investigators
believe someone aboard the missing Malaysian airliner deliberately shut
off its communications and tracking systems, turned the plane around
and flew for nearly seven hours after it vanished, Prime Minister Najib
Razak said on Saturday. (REUTERS)
Day 8
A relative of passengers from the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing
777-200 plane waits for new informations at a hotel in Beijing on March
14, 2014. The needle-in-a-haystack hunt for the missing Malaysian
airliner spread to the vast Indian Ocean on March 14 after the White
House cited "new information" that it might have flown for hours after
vanishing nearly seven days ago. (AFP)
A woman whose son was onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370
cries as journalists interview her at a hotel in Beijing Saturday,
March 15, 2014. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said Saturday that
investigators believe the missing Malaysian airliner's communications
were deliberately disabled, that it turned back from its flight to
Beijing and flew for more than seven hours. (AP)
Relatives of Chinese passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines
flight MH370 listen to a live telecast of a press conference by
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak at a hotel in Beijing Saturday,
March 15, 2014. Najib said Saturday that investigators believe the
missing Malaysian airliner's communications were deliberately disabled,
that it turned back from its flight to Beijing and flew for more than
seven hours. (AP)
Relatives of passengers from the missing Malaysia
Airlines Boeing 777-200 plane wait for new informations at a hotel in
Beijing on March 15, 2014. The needle-in-a-haystack hunt for the missing
Malaysian airliner spread to the vast Indian Ocean on March 14 after
the White House cited "new information" that it might have flown for
hours after vanishing nearly seven days ago. (AFP)
Day 7
A
Malaysia Airlines employee writes a message expressing prayers and
well-wishes for passengers onboard missing Malaysia Airlines (MAS)
flight MH370 at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang. (AFP)
Members
of the Malaysia Airlines' special assistance team to help relatives of
passengers from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 leave the
lounge in Beijing. (AFP)
Relatives
of Chinese passengers aboard missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370
leave from a room at a hotel in Beijing, China. (AP)
Col.
Vu Duc Long of the Brigade 918, Vietnam Air Force answers to the media
after a search operation for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight
MH370 plane over the southern sea between Vietnam and Malaysia at a
airbase in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. (AP)
A
relative of Chinese passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines
flight MH370 grieves alone in a corridor at a hotel in Beijing. (AP)
Day 6
Beachgoers
walk past a sand sculpture made by Indian sand artist Sudersan
Pattnaik with a message of prayers for the missing Malaysian Airlines
flight MH370 - which vanished from radar early on March 8 with ongoing
search operations mounted by multiple nations taking place in the South
China Sea, the Malacca Strait, and the Andaman Sea - at Puri beach,
some 65 kilometers away from Bhubaneswar, on March 14, 2014. Malaysia
denied March 12 that the hunt for a missing jet was in disarray, after
the search veered far from the planned route and China said that
conflicting information about its course was "pretty chaotic". (AFP)
Vietnamese
Navy's Deputy Commander Rear Admiral Le Minh Thanh (R) points at a map
to show the area where Vietnam is conducting search activities for the
missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 in Phu Quoc island on March 12,
2014. Vietnam said on March 12 it had suspended its air search for
missing flight MH370 and scaled back a sea search as it waited for
Malaysia to clarify the potential new direction of the multi-national
hunt. (AFP)
An
Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency personnel scans the seas
aboard a boat on patrol in the Malacca Strait off Aceh province located
in the area of northern Sumatra island on March 12, 2014 during the
continued search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. The
search for a missing Malaysian jet swung northwest towards the Andaman
Sea on March 12, far from its intended flight path, exposing Malaysia to
mounting criticism that its response was in disarray. (AFP)
Relatives
of passengers from the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 plane
receive a cash payment to help with living and travel costs while they
wait for news at the Metro Park Lido Hotel in Beijing on March 12,
2014. Malaysia's air force chief said authorities have not ruled out
the possibility a missing airliner inexplicably changed course before
losing contact, but denied reports the jet had been detected far from
its planned flight path. (AFP)
Malaysia
airlines officials assist the relatives of passengers from the missing
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 plane, during lunch at a restaurant in
Beijing on March 12, 2014. Malaysia's air force chief said authorities
have not ruled out the possibility a missing airliner inexplicably
changed course before losing contact, but denied reports the jet had
been detected far from its planned flight path. (AFP)
Day 5
Grieving Indonesian mother Suharni (L) displays a
portrait of her son Sugianto Lo and wife Vinny Chynthya, who are both
passengers of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, from their
residence in Medan in Sumatra island on March 10, 2013. Mystery
deepened on March 10 over the fate of a Malaysian jet carrying 239
people, as tests on oil slicks scotched suspicions it was aircraft fuel
while the search for debris failed to yield any trace of the missing
aircraft. (AFP)
Heavily
armed Philippine anti-terrorist police (L) patrol around Manila's
International Airport terminal on March 11, 2014. Revelations that at
least two people used stolen passports to board Malaysia Airlines flight
MH370, which went missing early on March 8 with 239 people on board
after taking off from Kuala Lumpur's international airport, have fuelled
fears of a security breach, raising concerns across the region. (AFP)
Family
members of passengers aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 vote to
set a deadline for the company to answer their requests, including
providing solatium without additional conditions, at a hotel in Beijing,
March 11, 2014. China urged Malaysia to step up the search for a
Malaysia Airlines jetliner that went missing with 239 people on board,
about two-thirds of them Chinese, and said it has sent security agents
to help with an investigation into the misuse of passports. (REUTERS)
Women
put the final touches to a sign of support and hope for the passengers
of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 they made and brought to
the Kuala Lumpur International Airport March 11, 2014. The Malaysian
military believes an airliner missing for almost four days with 239
people on board flew for more than an hour after vanishing from air
traffic control screens, changing course and travelling west over the
Strait of Malacca, a senior military source said. (REUTERS)
Day 4
Relatives of passengers aboard a missing Malaysia
Airlines plane hug each other at a hotel in Beijing, Monday, March 10,
2014. The anguished hours had turned into a day and a half. Fed up with
awaiting word on the missing plane, relatives of passengers in Beijing
lashed out at the carrier with a handwritten ultimatum and an
impromptu news conference. (AP)
Malaysian
ethnic Chinese sing songs as they hold a candlelight vigil for the
passengers of Malaysia Airlines MH370 near Independence Square in Kuala
Lumpur March 10, 2014. The disappearance of a Malaysian airliner about
an hour into a flight to Beijing is an "unprecedented mystery", the
civil aviation chief said on Monday, as a massive air and sea search now
in its third day failed to find any trace of the plane or 239 people
on board. (REUTERS)
A
Chinese relative of a passenger of Malaysia Airlines MH370 is
comforted by a staff member of the airport as she shields her face from
journalists at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang March 10,
2014. The disappearance of a Malaysian airliner about an hour into a
flight to Beijing is an "unprecedented mystery", the civil aviation
chief said on Monday, as a massive air and sea search now in its third
day failed to find any trace of the plane or 239 people on board.
(REUTERS)
Relatives of a passenger onboard the missing Malaysia
Airlines flight MH370 cry inside a hotel they are staying, in Putrajaya
March 10, 2014. China urged Malaysia to step up the search for a
Malaysia Airlines jetliner that went missing with 239 people on board,
about two-thirds of them Chinese, and said it has sent security agents
to help with an investigation into the misuse of passports. (REUTERS)
An
upset relative of a passenger of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight
MH370 is led away after approaching officials for information at a
hotel in Putrajaya March 9, 2014. The flight carrying 227 passengers
and 12 crew was presumed to have crashed off the Vietnamese coast on
Saturday, after losing contact with air traffic controllers off the
eastern Malaysia coast. (REUTERS)
Rosmah
Mansor (L), wife of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, cries with
family members of passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight
MH370, at a hotel in Putrajaya March 9, 2014. Radar tracking the missing
Malaysia Airlines flight indicated that it may have turned back from
its scheduled route to Beijing before disappearing, and Malaysian rescue
teams have expanded their search to the country's western coast,
Malaysian military officials said on Sunday. (REUTERS)
A
relative (L) of a passenger of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is
escorted by a caregiver from Malaysia Airlines as they walk in a
corridor at a hotel in Beijing, March 9, 2014. The flight, carrying 227
passengers and 12 crew, was presumed to have crashed off the Vietnamese
coast on Saturday. (REUTERS)
Day 3
Relatives of Chinese passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines
plane arrive at the Exit and Entry Administration of the Public Security
Bureau, a police department in charge of issuing passports in Beijing,
China, Sunday, March 9, 2014. (AP)
Chinese
relatives of passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane are
leaving a hotel for relatives or friends of passengers aboard the
missing airplane to apply for passport in Beijing, China Sunday, March
9, 2014. Planes and ships from across Asia resumed the hunt Sunday for a
Malaysian jetliner missing with 239 people on board for more than 24
hours, while Malaysian aviation authorities investigated how two
passengers were apparently able to get on the aircraft using stolen
passports. (AP)
Family
members of passengers aboard a missing plane cry at a hotel in
Putrajaya, Malaysia, Sunday, March 9, 2014. Military radar indicates
that the missing Boeing 777 jet may have turned back before vanishing,
Malaysia's air force chief said Sunday as authorities were investigating
up to four passengers with suspicious identifications. (AP)
A
Malaysian Muslim woman offers a special prayer for passengers aboard a
missing plane, at a mosque in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Sunday, March 9,
2014. Military radar indicates that the missing Boeing 777 jet may have
turned back before vanishing, Malaysia's air force chief said Sunday as
authorities were investigating up to four passengers with suspicious
identifications. (AP)
A
Malaysian Muslim woman cries as she offers a special prayer for
passengers aboard a missing plane, at a mosque in Putrajaya, Malaysia,
Sunday, March 9, 2014. Military radar indicates that the missing Boeing
777 jet may have turned back before vanishing, Malaysia's air force
chief said Sunday as authorities were investigating up to four
passengers with suspicious identifications.
Chinese
relatives of passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane wait
outside a hotel in Beijing Sunday, March 9, 2014. More than a day and a
half has passed since the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 jet disappeared
from radar contact in the first hour of a six-hour flight from Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia to China’s capital. From France to Australia and China,
families and friends are enduring an agonizing wait for news about
flight MH370.
Day 2
Family
members of those onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370
walk to their car outside a hotel in Putrajaya March 9, 2014. A Malaysia
Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew was presumed to
have crashed off the Vietnamese coast on Saturday, and European
officials said two people on board were using false identities.
(REUTERS)
Family
members of those onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 flight
walk to their hotel in Putrajaya March 9, 2014. A Malaysia Airlines
flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew was presumed to have crashed
off the Vietnamese coast on Saturday, and European officials said two
people on board were using false identities. (REUTERS)
A
relative of a passenger of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 cries as she
walks past journalists at a hotel in Beijing March 9, 2014. The
Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER aircraft carrying 227 passengers and
12 crew was presumed to have crashed off the Vietnamese coast on
Saturday, and European officials said two people on board were using
false identities. (REUTERS)
Family members of those onboard the missing Malaysia
Airlines flight MH370 cry at a hotel in Putrajaya March 9, 2014.
Malaysia Airlines said on Sunday it now feared the worst for its
missing plane carrying 239 people, more than a day after it went
missing, and was working with a U.S. company that specializes in
disaster recovery. (REUTERS)
A relative (front) of a passenger of Malaysia Airlines
flight MH370 cries as she walks past journalists at a hotel in Beijing
March 9, 2014. The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER aircraft carrying
227 passengers and 12 crew was presumed to have crashed off the
Vietnamese coast on Saturday, and European officials said two people on
board were using false identities. (REUTERS)
Family members look at a wedding album of Norliakmar
Hamid (R, in veil) and Razahan Zamani, passengers on a missing Malaysia
Airlines Boeing 777-200 plane in Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014.
Malaysia and Vietnam on March 8 led a search for a Malaysia Airlines
jet that has gone missing over Southeast Asia, as fears mounted over
the fate of the 239 people aboard. (AFP)
Day 1
Sarah Nor, 55, the mother of 34-year-old Norliakmar
Hamid, a passenger on a missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 plane,
talks on a mobile phone at her house in Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014.
Malaysia and Vietnam on March 8 led a search for a Malaysia Airlines
jet that has gone missing over Southeast Asia, as fears mounted over
the fate of the 239 people aboard. (AFP)
Medical staff arrive at a hotel meeting room where
relatives are being held after news of the missing Malaysia Airlines
Boeing 777-200 plane in Beijing on March 8, 2014. Malaysia and Vietnam
on March 8 led a search for a Malaysia Airlines jet that has gone
missing over Southeast Asia, as fears mounted over the fate of the 239
people aboard. (AFP)
A man (C) thought to be a relative of a passenger of the
missing Malaysia Airlines flight walks through a group of reporrters at
a hotel in Beijing on March 8, 2014. Rescuers from several nations
mounted an air and sea search on March 8 for a Malaysia Airlines jet
that has gone missing over Southeast Asia, with grave fears for the 239
people on board. (AFP)
Family members of those onboard the missing Malaysia
Airlines flight MH370 walk into the waiting area at Kuala Lumpur
International Airport in Sepang March 8, 2014. The flight carrying 227
passengers and 12 crew went missing over the South China Sea on
Saturday, presumed crashed, as ships from countries closest to its
flight path scoured a large search area for any wreckage. Vietnamese
state media, quoting a senior naval official, had reported that the
Boeing 777-200ER flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing had crashed off
south Vietnam, but Malaysia's transport minister later denied any crash
scene had been identified. (Reuters)
A woman breaks down while leaving the reception centre
for families and friends after an airliner went missing at the Kuala
Lumpur International Airport on March 8, 2014. Malaysia and Vietnam on
March 8 led a search for a Malaysia Airlines jet that has gone missing
over Southeast Asia, as fears mounted over the fate of the 239 people
aboard.
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