Search widens for missing plane
A Malaysian Airlines plane which went missing with 239 passengers on board may have turned back, say officials.
Air and sea rescue teams are extending the area they have been searching in the South China Sea south of Vietnam. It will now include the west coast of Malaysia.
Vietnam is investigating a "yellow object" which could be a life raft from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, reports Sky News.
There have been no definite sightings of wreckage from the flight which left Kuala Lumpur for Beijing on Friday evening (UK time).
No signal has been received from the plane’s emergency locator transmitter.
Investigators are also checking CCTV footage of two passengers who are believed to have boarded the plane using stolen passports and who had consecutive ticket numbers.
The BBC has confirmed that a man falsely using an Italian passport and a man falsely using an Austrian passport purchased tickets at the same time, and were both booked on the same onward flight from Beijing to Europe on Saturday.
"Whilst it is too soon to speculate about any connection between these stolen passports and the missing plane, it is clearly of great concern that any passenger was able to board an international flight using a stolen passport listed in Interpol databases," said Interpol’s Secretary General Ronald Noble said in a statement.
The flight was a code share with China Southern Airlines CZ748 and more than 150 of the 227 passengers on board are Chinese Nationals.
There were 38 Malaysians, seven Indonesians, six Australians, five Indians, four French and three Americans amongst the passengers.
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