Malay Military chief just said on News Asia that 20 fixed and rotary wing Aircraft as well as 40 Ships out looking now. From Malaysia and other countries.
Examining military Radar data now too.

Agreed 90%.
For those looking for 10% left facts, three other things we know yet are:
- that stolen and/or faked passeports (number no less than 2, perhaps more) were used to board the aircraft; so far, this is unconclusive.
- that the aircraft was involved in a wing clipping in 2012, subsenquently repaired and returned to flight status; so far, this is unconclusive.
- that the "most online" figure of PPRuNe was raised yesterday, from its precedent record dated june 1, 2009 (i.e. 447).

AlphaZulaRomeo your comment

Are you sure?

Source:
Malaysia Airlines investigation: Live Report

There are many automatic ELTs on 777 even121.5, 243,406mhz. Where are they?

Who's in charge of co-ordinating the search ?

Are the Vietnamese in charge ?There are Vietnamese and Malaysian assets out there now.Throw in a few Chinese vessels.Add a C-130 from Singapore and soon,a couple of P3C Orions from Oz.

Sounds a bit tricky.

Singapore probably.

http://www.mpa.gov.sg/sites/images/p...gapore-srr.jpg

Singapore has also deployed their submarine to assist in search. :D

Let me see.

Malaysian flagged carrier

Probably inside Malaysian Airspace

I'd say Malaysia would have the lead in the SAR op.

Meth,

As has been stated many times! They didn't need a visa if they were staying less than 72 hours....

Reports of sightings of debris off the Vietnamese coast starting to pop up on news feeds. Nothing confirmed at this stage though.

Update - Vietnam SAR
 

Sun has set and soon we should get reports from airborne search. The most recent I've seen, from a Thanh Nien reporter aboard Mi-171 helicopter no 02, was negative however. It took off after the AN-26s had returned to investigate at N072740 E1025848. This is in the vicinity of the oils slick spotted yesterday but further west.

However, flying at 500 metres (1500 ft) or lower, the crew judged the slick not to be oil.
The crew also observed several objects floating in the sea, which on closer observation were determined not to be from MH370.

I guess we will have some more of these false alarms, until the shipborne search starts in earnest as vessels arrive in the area. So far I have not seen any report of ships in action which would be capable of locating the CVR and FDR pinger.

You DO NOT have to have a valid visa to enter China if you are a transit passenger with an on-going ticket to another country. You can stay in China for 72hrs.

The e-ticket photo supplied shows an on-going ticket to AMS, (KUL-PEK-AMS) which would match up the theory of whom-ever having no intention of setting foot in China at all.

Get your facts straight.

Jeez there's some c*** being spouted on this thread.

No, AF447 hadn't been "found by now". Suspected debris was spotted about two days after it lost contact, but the first actual debris wasn't recovered until five days after the incident.

The location of AF447 on the ocean floor wasn't discovered until almost two years after the accident.

Interpol might disagree. Fairly global is 166 countries. Now, whether Malaysia checks it...

Stolen and Lost Travel Documents – holds information on more than 39 million travel documents reported lost or stolen by 166 countries. This database enables INTERPOL National Central Bureaus and other authorized law enforcement entities (such as immigration and border control officers) to ascertain the validity of a suspect travel document in seconds.
Databases / INTERPOL expertise / Internet / Home - INTERPOL

Do the effort of reading thread or inform yourself, passengers in transit requires no visa.

Update - Vietnam SAR
 

According to a Thanh Nien report, a "composite inner wall window piece" would have been spotted by a Vietnamese marine police seaplane (the DHC-6?) at N473208 E1032226. The seaplane had to return [presumably due to nightfall.]

The coordinate must be erroneous, but the description is the most fitting so far. Let's see if it holds. The news item said "the pilot could take pictures, but not clearly".

Disclamer, as usual: Based on Google translation.

EDIT: Dantri gives the coordinate as N083247, which puts the sighting 14NM to NE of the AN-26 sighting earlier today and 44NM / 82 km SSW of Tho Chu.

I would be of the opinion that the false passports belonged to people who paid their way to a "new life" in Europe, and that it is not connected to this accident.

According to this report something 'yellow' has been spotted by Singaporean SAR and the Vietnamese were going to be on site in a boat by 12.20 GMT

(I realise this differs to what Snowfalcon 2 has posted - at least one of the reports must be correct)

What would be yellow? Life rafts, the green internal paint?

On the Australian PBS channel tonight, in their World news bulletin, they said Singapore would coordinate the search.