Malaysian Airlines flight MH 370 departed from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing early on Saturday at 12:21 a.m. (12.21 p.m. ET Friday) and was due to land in Beijing at 6:30 a.m. (6.30 p.m. ET) the same day. But in a twist of events, the plane has vanished from radar screens and lost contact between the first and second hour of the flight, reports Reuters.

The Boeing 777-200 ER carried 227 passengers and a 12-strong in-flight crew. Prior to losing contact, the pilots relayed no distress signal or indication of problems as they flew on weather that was clear at the time.  

A massive multination search that includes both military and civilian vessels, and aircrafts have been deep in SAR operations, but to date, no wreckage has been found. There was a reported oil slick in the sea south of Vietnam and an object suspected to be a jet door, says The Mirror.

There have been reports of a number of families that have been able to successfully ring the mobile devices of passengers on the doomed flight but were never picked up. The Straits Times reports that a Chinese family successfully called and was connected three times but no one answered.

Family members who say they have been able to ring the mobile phones of the passengers have begged officials to take down the numbers and track the signals before their batteries run out, reports Yahoo!

In the video below, a Chinese man, a relative of one of the 239 passengers aboard flight MH 370, successfully connected to the mobile device of a passenger live on state television. However, no one answered.

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This phenomenon raises even more questions as to what really happened to flight MH 370.

According to Reuters, Interpol says at least two passports recorded as lost or stolen in its database were used by passengers, and it is "examining additional suspect passports and Malaysian authorities are investigating the identities of at least two other passengers in addition to the already identified pair carrying stolen passports."

The Manifest of the flight can be seen here.