More than 10 days after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared from radar, triggering an unprecedented multinational search, the sharing of information among the search parties has become all the more imperative.
A message board on a Chinese website reads: "To our domestic media: can you do anything other than lighting candles?" Such complaints are all over Chinese websites because the Western media have been providing most of the key information on the missing Flight MH370, with the Chinese media playing second fiddle.
Furious families of the missing flight 370 demand authorities communicate with them as they voice frustration with the airline's representatives.
The case of missing flight MH370 will strengthen relations between China and Malaysia, said K. S. Balakrishnan, an international affairs expert at a Malaysian government think tank and senior lecturer at the University of Malaysia.
Investigators are trying to restore files deleted last month from the home flight simulator of the pilot aboard the missing Malaysian plane to see if they shed any light on the disappearance, Malaysia's defense minister said Wednesday.
Heart-struck relatives on board the missing plane protested over a lack of information by Malaysian authorities, calling on Malaysian government to give the world accurate information immediately.
Family members of passengers on missing flight MH370 expressed their frustration with the lack of information on Wednesday although they stopped hunger strike launched a day earlier.
China has found no trace of missing flight MH370 entering its territory or airspace, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei says.
Investigators found that several recent files in the flight simulator of the pilot of the missing plane had been deleted, Malaysian Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said Wednesday in Putrajaya, local media reported.
Sources said investigators believe the missing MH370 most likely went to the southern end of one of two "corridors" that include a vast area curving from west of Indonesia to west of Australia.
Investigators believe it most likely that missing MH370 flew into the southern Indian Ocean.
Maldives island residents saw "low flying plane" on the morning of disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Maldivian news website Haveeru reported.