Malaysia Airlines plane missing

It is presumed that it had crashed, as ships and planes 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. Malaysia's transport minister later denied that there was a crash.

The plane disappeared without giving a distress signal, and that action intriqued speculatiions

Search and rescue vessels from the Malaysian maritime enforcement agency reached the area where the plane last made contact but they didnt find a sign of wreckage.