Timeline of events
March 8, 2014 12:40 A.M. - Flight MH-370 left Kuala Lumpa International Airport en route to Beijing Capital International Airport.
March 8, 2014 1:20 A.M - Flight MH-370 loses contact roughly an hour after take off. The last known position of the aircraft was over the Golf of Thailand. March 8, 2014 - After the plane never reached its destination a multi-national search and rescue effort was conducted in the Gulf of Thailand. March 9, 2014 - Interpol confirms that two men boarded the aircraft with stolen passports. March 10, 2014 - Vietnam gets their oil slick test results back and are negative for jet fuel. March 11, 2014 - The military determined that Flight MH-370 had made a sharp turn West, crossing over the Malaysian Peninsula towards a waypoint in the Strait of Malacca. March 11, 2014 - The two men who boarded the aircraft with stolen passports are identified and not ruled out for terrorism. March 12, 2013 - Search efforts intensify and are stretched to the South China Sea and Strait of Malacca. March 12, 2014 - Sighting of objects in the South China Sea from the Chinese governments satellite images. March 15, 2014 - The Malaysian Prime Minister releases a statement that all communications were deliberately shut off. |
March 18, 2014 - More then two dozen countries had been helping search the Indian Ocean for any debris.
March 20, 2014 - Several satellite images showed what could have been aircraft debris in the Indian Ocean southwest of Australia. Nothing found. March 22, 2014 - Chinese satellite images show debris west of Perth. Nothing found. March 24, 2014 - Prime Minister of Malaysia announces that Flight MH-370 has been assumed to go down with no survivors. March 26, 2014 - French satellite images show possible pieces of debris. Once again, nothing was found. April 5, 2014 - Chinese patrol ship detects a pulse signal in the ocean. April 8, 2014 - More signals are picked up by a ship, fairly close to the first ones on April 5th. April 10, 2014 - JACC declared that the signals are unlikely connected to Flight MH-370. April 14, 2014 - An oil slick is found near the pings in the ocean. April 18, 2014 - Results of the oil slick are in and is determined by an Australian lab that it is not related to Flight MH-370. April 24, 2014 - Debris washes up on the shore of Western Australia but is later determined not linked with Flight MH-370. |