Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Monday asked Malaysia to provide Beijing with more detailed data and information about missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in a timely, accurate and comprehensive manner.
The search for the missing Malaysian jet pushed deep into the northern and southern hemispheres Monday as Australia took the lead in scouring the seas of the southern Indian Ocean and Kazakhstan.
Malaysian police are investigating a flight engineer who was among the passengers on the missing plane as they focus on the pilots and anyone else on board who had technical flying knowledge.
Malaysian investigators are trawling through the backgrounds of the pilots, crew and ground staff for clues as to why someone on board flew it perhaps thousands of miles off course.
Chinese joint working group entrusted with handling issues related to the missing Malaysian jet liner said here Sunday that they will urge the Malaysian authorities to expand and intensify the search mission and clearly defines the search areas.
Malaysia is still waiting for some countries to send background checks on passengers who were on a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner as it intensifies inquiries into a suspected deliberate diversion of the plane, the country's police chief said on Sunday.
Many families of the passengers on missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 decided to stay in Beijing to await news.
Oceans and land across 11 countries being scoured, while passengers’ backgrounds are checked and new information surfaces about the pilots.
Malaysian authorities were examining an elaborate flight simulator taken from the home of the pilots of the missing jetliner while 25 countries are now involved in searching operations.
House of Catain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the pilot of missing plane, is located in Laman Seri, a community in Kuala Lumpur's suburbs in Malaysia, where villas are worth millions of Malaysian ringgits.
India Sunday put on hold the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 at the request of Kuala Lumpur, said local TV Times Now.
Muslims pray for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 with 239 people on board in a mosque in Kuala Lumpur, March 14, 2014.