Review of MH370 events since March 8

On March 8th Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur at 40 minutes past midnight. It was scheduled to arrive in Beijing at 6:30AM.  [Special coverage]

The plane's ACARS communications were lost at 1:19 in the morning and the last words heard from the cockpit were "alright, good night" at 1:20AM. A Malaysia military satellite then picked up the plane turning westwards at 2:14 in the morning. Radar contact was completely lost, but satellites were able to pick up "pings" from the aircraft at 8:11 AM that morning, 90 minutes after its scheduled landing time.

On March 15th, the Malaysian government confirmed the ACARS system was deliberately turned off and that the route could have been changed manually. On the same day Malaysia confirmed that new data showed two possible corridors the plane could have travelled, one north, one south, spanning from Kazakhstan to Southern Indian Ocean.

Four days ago, Australia confirmed possible debris sited 2,500 kilometers south west of Perth, on the 22nd, French satellites picked up additional debris making the case for the southern corridor more and more likely. And finally yesterday, the 24th, China spotted two objects in the southern Indian Ocean. And at 21:45 Beijing time, Malaysia's Prime Minister said according to new data, the flight most likely crashed in the Southern Indian Ocean, "far from any possible landing sites".