Confusion: Malaysia Airlines plane search widened to Andaman sea

Vietnam fully resumed its search for the missing flight, even as confusion reigned over the direction and flight path, vastly complicating efforts to find it.

Flight 370 press conference: search extended to 27,000 square nautical miles -12 countries particip.but nothing on rumours of debris, bodies.

More than four days after Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 went missing en route to Beijing, authorities acknowledged on Wednesday they didn’t know in which direction the plane and its 239 passengers was heading when it disappeared, vastly complicating efforts to find it.

Missing Plane Update: Stolen jet passport 'no terror link' - Malaysian police

A man travelling on a stolen passport on a missing Malaysian jet was a young Iranian who is not believed to have terrorist links, Malaysian police say.

It is believed the 19-year-old was travelling to Germany where he was hoping to seek asylum, they say.

Malaysia is widening the hunt, after days of searching found no trace of the plane or the 239 people on board.

Rescue teams from nine countries are searching areas stretching from the Malacca Strait to the South China Sea.

BBC

Relatives to Get $5,000 for Every Passenger Aboard Missing Jet

Malaysia Airlines to disburse consolation money today to #China relatives #MH370. RMB31,000 (~US$5,000) per passenger.