Timeline: The search for missing jet MH370(2)

THURSDAY, MARCH 13

-- Premier Li Keqiang says China will keep searching for the missing flight "as long as there is a glimmer of hope".

-- A Chinese satellite finds three floating objects on the South China Sea, but Malaysian officials deny the finding.

FRIDAY, MARCH 14

-- More than 80 ships and planes from 13 countries comb the waters on both sides of the Malaysian peninsula to locate the missing plane.

-- Malaysia confirms search areas have been widened to cover the Indian Ocean.

SATURDAY, MARCH 15

-- Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak says the disappearance of the missing jet was deliberate. Authorities refocus their investigation into MH370's crew and passengers.

-- The prime minister says the last confirmed signal between the plane and a satellite came at 8:11 a.m. Malaysian time on March 8. He says the flight turned back, then flew westward back over Peninsula Malaysia before turning northwest.

-- The Malaysian authorities try to trace the missing jet in one of the two possible corridors -- a northern one from the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to northern Thailand and a southern one stretching from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean.

SUNDAY, MARCH 16

-- Twenty-five countries are involved in the search and rescue operation.

-- Malaysian police retrieve the flight simulator of the pilot. Malaysian Airlines says the pilot and co-pilot did not request to fly together, dismissing speculation of a pre-planned hijack attempt.

MONDAY, MARCH 17

-- Li Keqiang asks Malaysia to provide Beijing with more detailed data and information about MH370 in a timely, accurate and comprehensive manner.

-- Malaysian officials confirm "All right, good night", spoken by the co-pilot, are the last words from the missing plane.

-- Twenty-six countries are involved in the search mission.

TUESDAY, MARCH 18

-- China announces nine vessels will sail from Singapore to waters southeast of the Bay of Bengal and west of Indonesia.

-- China says it has deployed 21 satellites to search for the missing jetliner.

-- Background checks on all passengers from the Chinese mainland on board the flight find no evidence of links to sabotage or terrorism.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19

-- China shifts its search focus from the South China Sea to waters southeast of the Bay of Bengal and west of Indonesia, covering an area of 300,000 square kilometers.

-- Malaysia says background checks on almost all passengers and crew produce no "information of significance".

-- The Thai air force reveals that its military radar picked up what appears to be flight MH370 just minutes after it was diverted.

THURSDAY, MARCH 20

-- Australia says it has spotted two objects possibly related to the missing plane in the southern Indian Ocean on satellite images, about 2,500 kilometers southwest of the Australian port city of Perth. An Australian navy P-3 plane later fails to locate the debris.

-- China confirms MH370 did not enter its territory.

-- During a phone conversation with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Xi Jinping urges full efforts as long as there is a gleam of hope, despite difficulties searching the remote area.