Wednesday 19 March 2014 14.48 Relatives of passengers on the missing Malaysian Airlines plane have been forcibly removed from a news conference in Kuala Lumpur.
They are reported to have shouted: "We can't take it any more."
They were trying to speak to journalists before a daily briefing by Malaysian officials.
Several relatives of passengers unfurled a banner and began shouting to assembled reporters before they were led away surrounded by security guards, with one woman wailing in grief.
"They are just saying wait for information. Wait for information. We don't know how long we have to wait," said the woman, who said her son had been on Flight MH370.
"Why won't they give us an explanation? My son. It's been 12 days. I have been here 10 days ... every time we ask a question they don't give us answers," she said.
A second woman wearing sunglasses and a face mask yelled in protest.
"We call on the Malaysian government to give us information immediately. There is no information, just endless searching," she said.
"We are not satisfied with the Malaysian government's conduct. We don't need the Malaysian government to take care of us. What we need is the truth. We need to know where the plane is," she said.
Neither woman gave her name.
Malaysian Transport Minister Hishmuddin Hussein told the conference that no suspicions had been raised on any of the 239 passengers on board the plane which went missing on 8 March.
Earlier, a source close to the investigation said investigators examining the disappearance of the plane believe it most likely that it flew into the southern Indian Ocean.
"The working assumption is that it went south, and furthermore that it went to the southern end of that corridor," said the source.
He was referring to a search area stretching from west of Indonesia to the Indian Ocean west of Australia.
Thai radar picked up an "unknown aircraft" minutes after flight MH370 last transmitted its location, but officials failed to report the findings earlier as the plane was not considered a threat, the air force said today.
The information emerged during checks of radar logs on Monday.
It came days after the jet disappeared, following a request from the Malaysian government, according to Air Marshal Monthon Suchookorn.
An "unknown aircraft was detected at 00.28 local time (1.28am Malaysian time), six minutes after MH370 vanished" in the South China Sea, moving southwest towards Kuala Lumpur and the Strait of Malacca, he told AFP.
That timing corresponds with the last transmission from the Boeing 777's transponder at 1.21am Malaysian time, which relayed information about the plane's altitude and location.
The timing of the plane being spotted travelling in the opposite direction from MH370's intended flight path to Beijing also comes after the final voice communication from the jet, a seemingly relaxed "All right, good night" at 1.19am.
Malaysia Airlines believes it was the co-pilot speaking from the cockpit.
Mr Monthon said that although the signal was sporadic, the aircraft was later again picked up by Thai radar swinging north and disappearing over the Andaman Sea.
"It's not confirmed that the aircraft is MH370," he said, adding he was unable to give "exact times" of the later sightings.
The plane slipped off Malaysian civilian radar screens at 1.30am but continued to blip on its military radars until 2.15am before disappearing entirely.
Thai air force records checked
The Thai revelations are likely to fuel anger at the apparently sluggish and at times contradictory official response to the jet's disappearance, which has left anguished relatives pleading for answers on the fate of their loved ones.
The Thai air force did not check its records because the aircraft was not in "Thai airspace and it was not a threat to Thailand", the spokesman said, denying it had been "withholding information".
Initially the massive search for the vanished jet focused on the Gulf of Thailand and adjacent South China Sea, with several nations sending boats, helicopters and jets to scour the waters.
The investigation into the fate of the Boeing 777 has focused on findings it was likely deliberately diverted from its flight path to Beijing, probably by someone in the cockpit with advanced aviation skills.
There are 26 countries involved in the hunt which covers a vast arc of land and sea, in a northern corridor over south and central Asia, and a southern corridor stretching deep into the southern Indian Ocean towards Australia.
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