Security services are investigating whether a passenger plane that vanished in South East Asia was destroyed in a terror attack.
The Malaysia Airlines jet, carrying 239 people, disappeared off the south coast of Vietnam almost two days ago, but there is still no sign of the aircraft or any wreckage.
The circles show the two areas the search is focusing on The search area has been widened after radar data indicated the Boeing 777-200 may have turned back.
The FBI and Boeing have joined the investigation after it was revealed four passengers may have been travelling on false passports.
Two passengers used passports stolen from Christian Kozel and Luigi Maraldi Malaysia's defence and transport minister Hishamuddin Hussein told a news conference in Kuala Lumpur: "All the four names are with me."
He confirmed Malaysian investigators have met counterparts from the FBI, and said the operation is focusing on "the entire passenger manifest".
Prayers are said at Kuala Lumpur airport for the missing passengers It emerged on Saturday that two people boarded the plane using stolen European passports.
"On the issue of the passports, I'm in touch with the international intelligence agencies," he said.
"At the same time our own intelligence has been activated, and of course, the counter-terrorism units...from all the relevant countries have been informed."
The two oil slicks seen off Vietnam Asked whether he believes the plane was hijacked, he would only say: "We are looking at all possibilities."
The two men using stolen passports reportedly bought their tickets together from a travel agency in Pattaya, Thailand.
They were due to fly on to Europe from Beijing, meaning they did not have to apply for a Chinese visa and undergo further checks.
Flight MH370 was travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it vanished around two hours into the flight.
Journalists try to interview a grieving relative in Beijing The plane disappeared from radar at 1.30am (5.30pm UK time) on Friday, about 85 miles (135km) north of the Malaysian city of Kuala Terengganu.
A huge search involving 22 aircraft and 40 ships is continuing in the vast waters of the Gulf of Thailand, between Vietnam and Malaysia.
It concentrated around the Vietnamese island resort of Phu Quoc after Vietnamese air force jets spotted two huge oil slicks.
The parallel slicks - both between 10 miles (16km) and 12 miles (19km) long and 500 metres apart - were consistent with the kind of spills caused by fuel from a crashed airliner, a Vietnamese government statement said.
A photo of the missing plane - seen taking off in Paris in 2011 The search has now widened to the sea off Malacca, on the west coast of Malaysia, after radar data indicated the plane may have turned back before disappearing.
US federal safety officials said a team of experts are heading to Asia to help in the investigation.
The team includes accident investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board, as well as technical experts from the Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing.
Family members have complained of a lack of information Earlier today, Malaysia's Civil Aviation chief Azaharudin Abdul Rahman said search teams have not found any debris from the plane.
He said no other aircraft in the Malaysia Airlines fleet would be grounded and indicated there were "no abnormalities" in the data received from the flight.
Two-thirds of the jet's passengers were from China. The rest were from elsewhere in Asia, North America and Europe.
The plane's disappearance is especially mysterious because it happened when the plane was at cruising altitude, not during the more dangerous phases of take-off or landing.
Malaysia's Civil Aviation chief says no wreckage has yet been found Officials are examining CCTV footage of passengers boarding the plane after it emerged two passengers had been travelling on stolen passports.
The airline listed one of the passengers as a 37-year-old Italian called Luigi Maraldi. He has contacted his parents in Italy to say he was not on the airliner.
He had his passport stolen in Thailand several months ago, leaving questions over who used his passport to board the plane and whether that has anything to do with the airliner's disappearance.
Another passenger used a passport belonging to Austrian citizen Christian Kozel. He is listed as one of the passengers although he has been confirmed as safe and well by authorities.
His passport was stolen in Thailand two years ago.
Relatives are still waiting anxiously at Beijing airport for news of their loved ones.
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