The Chinese State news agency has said a Chinese patrol vessel has discovered a pulse radio signal in the Indian Ocean.

A Chinese military plane scanning part of a search zone for signs of debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has spotted several objects floating in the sea, including two bearing colours of the missing jet.

A French satellite scanning the Indian Ocean for remnants of a missing jetliner found a possible plane debris field containing 122 objects, a top Malaysian official said yesterday, calling it “the most credible lead that we have”.

The search for the remains of Flight 370 has resumed off western Australia as the weather improved in the Indian Ocean’s remote waters.

Malaysia says it has narrowed the search area for a downed airliner by 80% in the southern Indian Ocean, while Australia said improved weather would allow the hunt for possible debris from the plane to resume.

Chinese and Australian planes have spotted several objects in an area identified by multiple satellite images as containing possible debris from the missing Malaysian airliner.

Relatives of passengers on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 are growing increasingly angry over the lack of information about the fate of their loved ones.

A Chinese satellite has spotted a large object along a broad stretch of ocean where officials hope to find a Malaysia Airlines plane that has been missing for more than two weeks, Malaysia’s defence minister has said.

As planes spent a third day hunting for two large objects spotted by satellite in the southern Indian Ocean, Australian officials today said they were far from giving up on what remains the strongest lead in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

Malaysian investigators — with the help of the FBI — are trying to restore files deleted last month from the home flight simulator of the pilot aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines plane to see if they shed any light on the disappearance.

Investigators are trying to restore files deleted last month from the home flight simulator of the pilot aboard the missing Malaysian plane.

Authorities looking into the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines plane are focusing on a flight engineer.

Even before someone at the controls calmly said the last words heard from the missing Malaysian jetliner, one of the Boeing 777’s communications systems had already been disabled, authorities said yesterday, adding to suspicions that one or both of the pilots were involved in the disappearance of the flight.

Missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 may have been flying for more than five hours after it disappeared, sources have said.

Malaysian investigators are becoming increasingly certain that the missing plane turned back across the country after losing communications, and that someone with aviation skills was responsible for the unexplained change in course.

Vietnam says it has downgraded its search for the missing airliner in the South China Sea and has been asked by Malaysian authorities to consider sending planes and ships to the Strait to Malacca.

It has been revealed Chinese satellite images which were believed to show debris from the missing Malaysian plane were released by mistake.

Satellite images on a Chinese government website show suspected debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane floating off the southern tip of Vietnam, China’s Xinhua News Agency has said.

Malaysian authorities have defended their handling of the hunt for the missing Boeing 777 – even as they acknowledged they are unsure which direction the plane was travelling in when it disappeared.

The search area for a missing airliner has expanded, with Malaysia Airlines saying the western coast of the country is now the focus of the hunt.

Investigators in Malaysia are voicing scepticism that the Malaysian airliner which disappeared early on Saturday was the target of an attack, say US and European government sources close to the probe.

Rescuers are continuing their search for a Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared with 239 people on board as Malaysia’s civil aviation chief said investigators were looking at “every angle”.

Investigators say an oil slick in the South China Sea is not from the missing Malaysian Airlines flight.

Searchers worked through the night but could not find an object spotted yesterday afternoon that was thought to be a door from the missing Malaysia Airlines passenger jet.

International intelligence agencies have joined the investigation into the two passengers who boarded the missing Boeing 777 plane with stolen passports.

Vietnamese authorities searching waters for a missing Boeing 777 airliner have spotted an object that they suspect is one of the plane’s doors.

International intelligence agencies have joined the investigation into the two passengers who boarded the missing Boeing 777 plane with stolen passports.

Malaysia intelligence agencies are investigating how up to four passengers with suspect identities were able to board the missing Boeing 777 jet.