Search Timeline of response

Date (UTC) 7 March Event

Malaysia Airlines confirms it lost contact with Flight 370 at 18:40 UTC (0 :40 M!T" 8 March#" later correcte$ to 17:30 UTC (01:30 M!T# 8 March An international search an$ resc%e mission mo&ili'e$ foc%sing on (o%th China (ea The search area e*+an$e$ as the aircraft might ha,e t%rne$ &ac- west ) March Two +assengers fo%n$ to &e tra,elling on stolen +ass+orts Ten Chinese satellites now $e+loye$ in the search 10 .il slic-s on the s%rface of the (o%th China (ea teste$ negati,e for /et f%el March Malaysia Airlines anno%nces it will gi,e U(01"000 to the relati,es of each +assenger 11 2nter+ol say that two false i$entities not lin-e$ to the $isa++earance March Chinese satellite images of +ossi&le $e&ris from Flight 370 in the (o%th China (ea at 34756 10143357 release$" &%t s%rface search fin$s no wrec-age 1 Malaysian go,ernment recei,es 2nmarsat info that Flight 370 +inge$ for ho%rs after ACA8( March went off9line Chinese go,ernment critici'es Malaysia for ina$e:%ate answers regar$ing Flight 370 13 U( hints search sho%l$ &e e*+an$e$ to the 2n$ian .cean March 2n,estigation concl%$es that Flight 370 was still %n$er the control of some&o$y after it lost 14 contact with gro%n$ control March MA( retires the M;370<M;371 flight n%m&er +air Malaysia anno%nces last satellite transmission from Flight 370 refoc%ses search along two 11 loci= north an$ so%th March Malaysian +olice search the homes of &oth of the aircraft>s +ilots 13 The n%m&er of co%ntries in,ol,e$ in the search an$ resc%e o+eration reaches 1 March 17 A%stralia lea$s search from (%matra to the so%thern 2n$ian .cean March 18 China starts a search o+eration in a northern region of its own territory March 1) 7*+erts attem+t to restore logfiles $elete$ from the flight sim%lator in the ca+tain>s home March 0 Aircraft an$ shi+s $is+atche$ to locate two o&/ects seen &y satellite in the so%thern 2n$ian March .cean at 44503?0 @( )1513? 7@7A twenty9si* nations are in,ol,e$ in search 1 (earch foc%ses on an area 3"000 -ilometers so%thwest of Berth" Cestern A%stralia March Chinese satellite image shows a +ossi&le o&/ect meas%ring 41 &y 13 meters at 44517?30@( )0513?40@7" a++ro*imately 3"170 -ilometers west of Berth an$ /%st 1 0 -ilometers from the March earlier sighting &%t $i$ not confirm the o&/ect nat%re 4 A%stralian search aircraft s+ots two o&/ects at sea "4)0-m so%thwest of Berth" one of them a

large orange rectang%lar o&/ect March Brime Minister of Malaysia anno%nces that Flight 370 crashe$ in the so%thern 2n$ian .cean" an$ Malaysia Airlines states to families that it ass%mes D&eyon$ reasona&le $o%&tD there are no s%r,i,ors (earch area narrowe$ to the so%thern ti+ of the so%thern search corri$orA searches in the 1 northern search corri$or" an$ northern half of so%thern search area calle$ off following March $etaile$ re9analysis of satellite $ataA aerial search s%s+en$e$ $%e to ar$%o%s weather con$itions in the (o%thern 2n$ian .cean