Live report on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370

21:00

MH370 passengers cleared of hijacking, sabotage All MH370 passengers have been cleared of any role in the hijacking or sabotage of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, police say. (CNN)

20:30

Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission(CMC) Fan Changlong on Wednesday told Chinese rescuers to prepare for protracted search for the missing Malaysian plane MH370.

Day 25

21:30

The 17th Chinese escort naval fleet heading for the Gulf of Aden and the waters off Somalia conduct search operation on April 1, 2014. The 17th Chinese escort naval fleet heading for the Gulf of Aden and the waters off Somalia reached its target area south of Christmas Island of Australia Tuesday to search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.

21:30

The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean ended for Tuesday with "no significant developments," Australian maritime authorities said.

18:40

A fourth Australian ship set sail on Tuesday for a sea area 1,800 kilometers west of Perth to assist with surface sweep operations searching for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

16:00

Nothing related to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 were found so far in waters where suspicious objects had been spotted, said captain of the Chinese vessel Haixun 01 on Tuesday.

11:00

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak will arrive in Perth, West Australia on Wednesday to witness the ongoing search operation for the missing MH370 passenger jet.

08:00

Ten planes and nine ships will assist in Tuesday's search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, the Joint Agency Coordination Center (JACC) announced.

The JACC was established on Monday and is being led by retired Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston in Perth to effectively coordinate Australian government's search and recovery operation.

Day 24

16:00

A Malaysian guided missile frigate has arrived at an Australian naval base near Perth for briefings on the ongoing search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, maritime authorities said Monday.

10:40

Australian vessel Toowoomba has entered the target area for search of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, maritime authorities said Monday.

8:40

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Monday there was no time limit on the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, missing for more than three weeks in the Indian Ocean with 239 people on board.

He says the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is "an extraordinarily difficult exercise" but that it will go on as long as possible.

8:00

Senior US lawmakers on Sunday said investigators had found no evidence thus far pointing to terrorism in the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 three weeks ago, and that it was critical to find the plane to understand what happened on board.

5:42

Despite what Australia called an "intensifying search effort," an international hunt Sunday by aircraft and ships in the southern Indian Ocean found no debris linked to the Malaysian jet that vanished more than three weeks ago.

Day 23

21:20

Ships helping to search for signs of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have retrieved objects from the sea for the first time, but they could not be confirmed as aircraft debris, Australian rescue authorities said Sunday.

19:00

Australia's prime minister said Sunday that he was hopeful a clue will emerge soon to narrow the hunt for Flight 370, as relatives of Chinese passengers on the plane protested in Malaysia to demand that the government apologize for its handling of the search for the jet.

10:13

A total of seven Chinese ships convened Sunday in waters west of Australia's Perth to coordinate their search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.

They are tasked with a rectangle-shaped search area located at about 26.34 degrees south latitude and 91.104 degrees east longitude, according to a Xinhua correspondent aboard one of the vessels Jinggangshan.

07:06

Search activities for the missing Malaysian jet concluded Saturday with further sightings of potential debris but again no confirmation, Australian maritime rescue authorities said.

Day 22

20:26

Saturday's search operation for MH370 ended. Nothing has been found yet. The search will resume on Sunday morning.

14:59

A Chinese Ilyushin IL-76 aircraft spotted on Saturday three suspicious objects in a new search waters in the Indian Ocean that is north to the previous area.

11:11

The New Zealand Orion found a total of 11 objects during Friday's search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean, one of which looked like an orange buoy. A Chinese Ilyushin IL-76 aircraft spotted on Saturday three suspicious objects in a new search waters in the Indian Ocean that is north to the previous area.

09:46

The weather is expected initially to be suitable for the searching of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, but conditions are likely to deteriorate later in the day, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said in its latest update.

08:30

A second Chinese ship Jinggangshan reached early Saturday a new search area in the Indian Ocean to relocate objects possibly related to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. The Chinese navy vessel that carries two helicopters is expected to focus on searching for plane surfaces, oil slicks and life jackets in a sea area of some 6,900 square km.

01:20

Crew members aboard the Chinese patrol ship Haixun 01 prepare a boat equipped with black box searching devices as they search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean on Friday. Zhang Chi / for China Daily

Chinese patrol ship Haixun 01 reached its target area late night to relocate objects spotted earlier in the day by airborne searchers for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. Due to poor visibility at night, no major sightings were reported as of 1:00 am local time Saturday (1700 GMT of Friday) but a few light-colored, palm-size floating objects.

Day 21

21:10

Five aircraft spotted multiple objects of various colors during Friday's search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, Australian maritime authorities said.

"The objects cannot be verified or discounted as being from MH370 until they are relocated and recovered by ships," said the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) in the latest update.

20:06

A New Zealand P3 Orion search plane reported seeing objects floating in the the new search area late Friday, although they could not be confirmed by ship until Saturday, according to the AMSA Twitter feed.

18:16

Highlights of press conference held by Hishammuddin Hussein, Malaysian minister of defence and acting minister of transport.

"The current search operations are made in light of satellite images. And the search teams have not found any objects related to the debris of the missing flight MH370."

"The international investigation teams are trying to narrow down the search area. We will not stop the efforts to search the 'black box'."

12:30

Chinese Maritime Safety Administration patrol ship Haixun 01 is in the new search area following advice from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) , the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said in its latest update on Friday.

10:40

AMSA confirmed that Friday's search will shift to an area 1,100 kilometers to the northeast of the current search area based on updated advice provided by the international investigation team in Malaysia.

10:00

The search area for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has been updated after a new credible lead emerged, the Australian maritime rescue authorities said Friday.

09:00

The air search of the southern Indian Ocean for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 resumed Friday with nine military aircraft from six nations taking part.

The military aircraft scheduled to fly were two Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) P3 Orions, a Republic of Korea P3 Orion, a Republic of Korea C130 Hercules, a Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) P3 Orion, a Chinese Ilyushin IL-76, a United States Navy P8 Poseidon aircraft, and a Japanese coast guard jet and a P3 Orion, said a statement from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority.

0:00

The clues keep piling up: more and more mysterious objects spotted bobbing in the southern Indian Ocean, perhaps part of the missing Malaysian airliner, perhaps not. But just as the night sky depicts the universe as it once was, the satellite images that reveal these items are also a glance backward in time.