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Malaysian authorities have issued a new version of the last communication between air traffic control and the cockpit of the missing flight MH370. | Malaysian authorities have issued a new version of the last communication between air traffic control and the cockpit of the missing flight MH370. |
The last words spoken were "Good night Malaysian three seven zero" - and not "all right, good night" as reported. | The last words spoken were "Good night Malaysian three seven zero" - and not "all right, good night" as reported. |
The transport ministry said forensic investigations would determine whether the pilot or co-pilot spoke the words. | The transport ministry said forensic investigations would determine whether the pilot or co-pilot spoke the words. |
The plane, carrying 239 people, was travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it disappeared on 8 March. | The plane, carrying 239 people, was travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it disappeared on 8 March. |
The plane's last contact took place at 01:19 Malaysian time. | The plane's last contact took place at 01:19 Malaysian time. |
The BBC's transport correspondent Richard Westcott says the new version of the last words is more formal and more in keeping with the way a pilot might usually speak to air traffic control than the wording previously reported. | |
It is not clear why it has changed or why it has taken the authorities this long to determine this, he says. | It is not clear why it has changed or why it has taken the authorities this long to determine this, he says. |
'No time limit' | |
Earlier the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said rescue crews had put no time limit on the hunt for the missing jet. | |
Aircraft and ships are scouring the Indian Ocean west of Perth looking for any trace of the flight. | |
Evidence from satellite "pings" received from the plane after its last contact with air traffic control and radar has been used to delineate a search area. | |
While floating objects have been spotted by search teams, none has been identified as coming from the Boeing 777. | |
The search teams are deploying a device known as a "towed pinger locator" (TPL) to listen for ultrasonic signals from the plane's "black box" flight-data recorders. | |
The signals from the flight recorders last about 30 days. | |
Dozens of relatives of some of the 153 missing Chinese passengers have travelled to Kuala Lumpur in their search for answers. | |
They have become increasingly angry with what they perceive as a lack of information from the Malaysian authorities. | |
Malaysia's acting Transport Minister, Hishammuddin Hussein, said the government would soon hold a briefing for those families to update them on the search, which would include international experts to explain the research, data and methodology used in the operation. | |
The briefing would also be broadcast live to other families in Beijing, he said. | |
Mr Hussein said Malaysia would never give up until it knew what had happened to MH370. |