Malaysia Airlines MH370: Confusion over plane last location

Search teams are scouring waters off both sides of the Malaysian peninsula, amid confusion over a missing Malaysia Airlines plane's last known location.

Malaysia's air force chief has denied reports that the plane was tracked to the Malacca Strait in the west.Vietnam has despatched a plane to investigate an eyewitness report of a possible object burning in the sky east of Vietnam.Flight MH370 went missing on Saturday. It had 239 people on board.Authorities have been searching for the plane, which disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, for the past five days.Earlier this week, Malaysia widened the search for the missing plane amid conflicting reports on its last known position.


'Burning spotted'

The Malaysian authorities initially said flight MH370 disappeared about an hour after it took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport, as it flew over the South China Sea, south of Vietnam's Ca Mau peninsula. No distress signal or message was sent.Early search efforts focussed on waters between Malaysia and Vietnam.
The search was later extended to the Malacca Strait and the Andaman Sea, off Malaysia's west coast, amid reports that the plane could have turned back.On Wednesday, Malaysia's air force chief Rodzali Daud denied remarks attributed to him in local media that a missing Malaysia Airlines plane was tracked by military radar to the Malacca Strait, far west of its planned route.