The Foreign Affairs Ministery has contacted all relevant nations to assist in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH370.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said on his Facebook on Monday that he would continue making calls to the countries that needed to be roped in for the search as the area had been widened.
So far Najib had spoken to leaders in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Bangladesh, India, Australia, Vietnam and China.
Last Saturday Najib, announced that the search and rescue (SAR) mission was expanded to the northern and southern corridors following data from the military's radar that confirmed a plane that had turned back from the Vietnamese air traffic control was flight MH370.
The search operation in the South China Sea, meanwhile had been ended.
According to a Reuters report, no unidentified planes had crossed Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan's air space on March 8.
“I will continue to speak to these and all relevant leaders even at this very moment, as and when these calls can be made,” he added.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States has deployed a team of agents and technical experts to assist in investigating the disappearance of flight MH370.
Tony Abbott who expressed his country’s wish to help in the MH370 search operations, said the Australian government agreed to deploy two of its maritime surveillance aircrafts named PC3-Orion.
The French government has sent its three experts who worked on the Air France Flight 447 air crash disaster on 2009 which killed 228 passengers to assist in the MH370 investigations.
The Indian Navy's satellite Rukmini or GSAT-7 has also been activated to pick up any clue that may lead investigators to the missing aircraft. It also doubled the number of ships and planes deployed to search the Andaman Sea.
It said six ships and five aircraft were now scouring for any sign of the vanished plane in the Andaman Sea, which surrounds India's remote Andaman and Nicobar group of islands that lie far to the country's southeast.
The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) said in its Facebook post that it was sending a Fokker-50 maritime patrol aircraft to assist in the search-and-locate operation in the Straits of Malacca.
Singapore has so far sent two military transport planes, a naval helicopter, two warships and a submarine support and rescue vessel to help with the search for the missing Malaysian aircraft.
Other countries who have joined the SAR are Brunei, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Myanmar, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, South Korea, Thailand, Turkmenistan, UAE, UK and Uzbekistan,
To date, 26 countries are involved in the search mission.
The MH370 flight was carrying a total number of 239 passengers (including 2 infants) and 12 crew members.
The aircraft was scheduled to land at Beijing International Airport at 6.30am local Beijing time. Subang Air Traffic Control reported that it lost contact at 2.40am (local Malaysia time).
Flight MH370 was operated on a Boeing B777-200 aircraft. The Boeing 777 is one of the world’s most popular and safest jets.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said on his Facebook on Monday that he would continue making calls to the countries that needed to be roped in for the search as the area had been widened.
So far Najib had spoken to leaders in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Bangladesh, India, Australia, Vietnam and China.
Last Saturday Najib, announced that the search and rescue (SAR) mission was expanded to the northern and southern corridors following data from the military's radar that confirmed a plane that had turned back from the Vietnamese air traffic control was flight MH370.
The search operation in the South China Sea, meanwhile had been ended.
According to a Reuters report, no unidentified planes had crossed Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan's air space on March 8.
“I will continue to speak to these and all relevant leaders even at this very moment, as and when these calls can be made,” he added.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States has deployed a team of agents and technical experts to assist in investigating the disappearance of flight MH370.
Tony Abbott who expressed his country’s wish to help in the MH370 search operations, said the Australian government agreed to deploy two of its maritime surveillance aircrafts named PC3-Orion.
The French government has sent its three experts who worked on the Air France Flight 447 air crash disaster on 2009 which killed 228 passengers to assist in the MH370 investigations.
The Indian Navy's satellite Rukmini or GSAT-7 has also been activated to pick up any clue that may lead investigators to the missing aircraft. It also doubled the number of ships and planes deployed to search the Andaman Sea.
It said six ships and five aircraft were now scouring for any sign of the vanished plane in the Andaman Sea, which surrounds India's remote Andaman and Nicobar group of islands that lie far to the country's southeast.
The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) said in its Facebook post that it was sending a Fokker-50 maritime patrol aircraft to assist in the search-and-locate operation in the Straits of Malacca.
Singapore has so far sent two military transport planes, a naval helicopter, two warships and a submarine support and rescue vessel to help with the search for the missing Malaysian aircraft.
Other countries who have joined the SAR are Brunei, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Myanmar, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, South Korea, Thailand, Turkmenistan, UAE, UK and Uzbekistan,
To date, 26 countries are involved in the search mission.
The MH370 flight was carrying a total number of 239 passengers (including 2 infants) and 12 crew members.
The aircraft was scheduled to land at Beijing International Airport at 6.30am local Beijing time. Subang Air Traffic Control reported that it lost contact at 2.40am (local Malaysia time).
Flight MH370 was operated on a Boeing B777-200 aircraft. The Boeing 777 is one of the world’s most popular and safest jets.
