Timeline: The search for missing jet MH370(3)

FRIDAY, MARCH 21

-- Search planes from Australia, the US and New Zealand spend a second fruitless day scouring a remote stretch of the southern Indian Ocean, trying to locate the objects seen on the satellite images.

-- A delegation of the Malaysian government and military officials meet with relatives of Chinese passengers aboard the flight in Beijing.

SATURDAY, MARCH 22

-- China releases a satellite image of possible wreckage from MH370, describing the object in the picture captured on March 18 as 22 meters long and 13 meters wide. It is spotted around 120 km from debris earlier reported by Australia in the southern Indian Ocean.

-- Two Chinese Air Force Ilyushin IL-76 transport aircraft arrive at the Royal Australian Air Force Base Pearce to serve as "eyes" to identify floating objects in the ocean.

-- An aircraft of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) reports sighting a number of "small objects", including a wooden pallet, within a radius of 5 km.

SUNDAY, MARCH 23

-- A visual search is carried out by an international air team focusing on finding the 22-meter-long object China spotted and the "small objects", including a wooden pallet, detected by the AMSA in the southern Indian Ocean. But there are no significant sightings.

-- French satellite images show debris in the search area, which remain to be located and confirmed as previous findings.

MONDAY, MARCH 24

-- A Chinese IL-76 plane spots debris -- two big floating objects with many white smaller ones scattered within a radius of several kilometers -- in the southern Indian Ocean, but the AMSA later says a U.S. P-8 Poseidon aircraft is unable to locate the objects.

-- Chinese icebreaker Xuelong changes its course toward the latest sighting, with more Chinese vessels heading for the waters.

-- An Australian air force P-3 Orion plane spots two objects, a grey or green circular object and an orange rectangular object, in the southern Indian Ocean region. This finding is separate to the objects earlier reported by the Chinese IL-76 plane.

-- The US Pacific Command orders the Pacific Fleet to move a black box locator into the region in case debris is located.

-- Malaysia announces that new analysis of satellite data suggests MH370 "ends" in the southern Indian Ocean and Malaysia Airlines tells relatives of the passengers the plane has been "lost" and "none of those on board survived".

TUESDAY, MARCH 25

-- The Chinese government asks Malaysia to provide all information and evidence leading to Malaysia's conclusion that the plane ended in the Indian Ocean, pledging to continue search efforts.

-- Xi Jinping orders a special envoy to be sent to Kuala Lumpur.

-- Malaysia Airlines says "rational deduction" leads to the belief there are no survivors on the plane.

-- The AMSA suspends the search operation for Tuesday due to bad weather.