Timeline for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370

March 8,

00:41: Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 takes off from Kuala Lumpur with 227 passengers (including 154Chinese citizens) and 12 crew members aboard the Boeing 777, and is scheduled to arrive in Beijing just under six hours later.

1:20: Contact with the flight is lost when it is believed to be in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh air traffic control area.