Malaysia Airlines: latest

Search teams scouring the Gulf of Thailand for wreckage of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet have discounted a yellow scrap of plastic seen by Vietnamese rescuers, as China urges Malaysia to step up the search. All the latest here

Vietnamese military personnel prepare a helicopter for a search and rescue mission 

 In Beijing, the friends and relatives of the missing passengers voiced their anger after another long day of waiting in a downtown hotel.

A Malaysian Airlines representative was pelted with water bottles and called a liar at a briefing, while Chinese officials were also greeted with abuse and shouted questions.

"We have almost 100 people working on the case," said the representative from the Chinese government. "If you are unhappy, you should be unhappy at Malaysia Airlines. The government has no problem with you. The government strongly supports you."

10.05 So here is a brief recap of what we know so far - and the facts are essentially unchanged since the plane disappeared off the radars in the early hours of Saturday.

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was last heard from at 1.20am local time on Saturday morning, roughly 40 minutes after taking off from Kuala Lumpur on route to Beijing.

The skies were clear and the plane has 239 passengers on board.

Of those, 150 were Chinese - but in total 14 countries had citizens on board.

The plane sent no distress signal. And no wreckage has yet been found.

10.00 Welcome to The Telegraph's live coverage of the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.