Malaysia's
Minister of Defence and Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein
(2nd R) speaks during a press conference at a hotel near Kuala Lumpur
International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang on March 19, 2014.Background
checks on nearly all but three of the 239 passengers and crew on board a
missing Malaysia Airlines jet have produced no "information of
significance", Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said on March 19.
Chinese
relatives of passengers from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370
are stopped and escorted away by Malaysian police from entering the
media centre before the start of a press conference at a hotel near
Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang, outside Kuala
Lumpur on March 19, 2014. Background checks on nearly all but three of
the 239 passengers and crew on board a missing Malaysia Airlines jet
have produced no "information of significance", Transport Minister
Hishammuddin Hussein said on March 19.
Data was deleted from the home flight simulator used by the pilot of missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 and investigators are working to recover it, a Malaysian official said on Wednesday.
In a daily press briefing, Hishammuddin Hussein, Malaysia's minister of transport and defence, also said background checks on all but three of the 239 passengers and crew on board the plane had produced no "information of significance".
MH370 went missing early on March 8 with 239 passengers and crew, spawning a massive international search across Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean.
Police had removed the simulator from Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah's home last Saturday, after it became clear that the aircraft had likely been deliberately diverted by someone on board.
"Some data had been deleted from the simulator and forensic work to retrieve this data is ongoing," Hishammuddin said, stressing that no evidence had been found implicating Zaharie in any wrongdoing.
The minister also announced that Malaysia had received the results of passenger background checks from all countries with citizens on board -- apart from Ukraine and Russia.
"So far no information of significance on any passengers has been found." he said.
There were two Ukrainians and one Russian on the plane.
Missing Malaysian plane assumed in southern Indian Ocean: source
Investigators examining the March 8 disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines plane with 239 people aboard believe it most likely that the plane flew into the southern Indian Ocean, a source close to the investigation said on Wednesday.
"The working assumption is that it went south, and furthermore that it went to the southern end of that corridor," said the source, referring to a search area stretching from west of Indonesia to the Indian Ocean west of Australia.
Investigators examining the March 8 disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines plane with 239 people aboard believe it most likely that the plane flew into the southern Indian Ocean, a source close to the investigation said on Wednesday.
"The working assumption is that it went south, and furthermore that it went to the southern end of that corridor," said the source, referring to a search area stretching from west of Indonesia to the Indian Ocean west of Australia.
This
visual on Mapbox, shows all major satellite companies tasking their
satellites in the search for the missing flight MH370. Here the
footprints mapped from each major satellite provider over the last 6
days (since March 9, 2014). (Credit: Mapbox.com) 
A
personnel of Indonesia's National Search and Rescue looks over horizon
during a search in the Andaman sea area around northern tip of
Indonesia's Sumatra island for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight
MH370. 
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