MH370 Hunt Began Four Hours After Jet Vanished

The operation to find Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was not launched until four hours after the plane went off radar, according to an interim report.

The information, released by the country's government, showed it disappeared at 1.21am but Vietnamese air traffic controllers did not realise the aircraft was missing until 17 minutes later at 1.38am.

It was then more than three hours until the search and rescue operation began at 5.30am after attempts to locate the Boeing 777 had failed.

Other information released by the Malaysian government includes audio recordings of conversations between the cockpit and air traffic control, the plane's cargo manifest and its seating plan.

The air search for debris in the Indian Ocean was recently called off

The cargo manifest includes a receipt for a package containing over two tons of lithium ion batteries, noting the package "must be handled with care".

Some questions were raised in March about the batteries.

But the airline said then that they were in compliance with international requirements and classified as "non-dangerous goods".

The report also said aviation authorities should examine the benefits of standardised tracking on all commercial aircraft.

The latest findings did not contain information on the ongoing Malaysian police investigation into whether a criminal act such as terrorism was to blame.

A submarine is still being used to scour the seabed for MH370

A separate report listing the actions taken by air traffic controllers showed the Vietnamese contacted Kuala Lumpur after they failed to establish verbal contact with the pilots and the plane did not show up on their radar.

That report also showed at one point Malaysia Airlines thought the plane may have entered Cambodian airspace.

The jet vanished early on Saturday March 8 between Malaysia and Vietnam during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in China.

Military radar found the plane made a turn-back in a westerly direction across Peninsular Malaysia but took no further action because the aircraft was deemed "friendly".

Some 239 people were aboard the jet and most of the 227 passengers were Chinese.

Relatives of the passengers on MH370 have been advised to return home

Despite extensive searches from the air and in the sea, no trace of the aircraft has been found. It is likely it came down in the southern Indian Ocean.

Meanwhile, the airline has advised relatives of passengers who were aboard Flight 370 to move out of hotels and return home to wait for news on the search.

Since the jet disappeared, the airline has been putting the relatives up in hotels, where they have been briefed.

But the airline said it would close its family assistance centres around the world by May 7, and the families should receive search updates from "the comfort of their own homes".

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