Officials are investigating the identity of four passengers on a missing Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 239 people - but have not determined if it was downed in a terror attack.
Malaysia's defence and transport minister Hishamuddin Hussein told a news conference in Kuala Lumpur: "All the four names are with me."
The two oil slicks seen off Vietnam He confirmed Malaysian investigators have met counterparts from the FBI, and said the operation is focusing on "the entire passenger manifest".
It emerged on Saturday that two people boarded the Boeing 777-200 using stolen European passports.
"On the issue of the passports, I'm in touch with the international intelligence agencies," he said.
Journalists try to interview a grieving relative in Beijing "At the same time our own intelligence has been activated, and of course, the counter-terrorism units...from all the relevant countries have been informed."
Asked whether he believes the plane was hijacked, he would only say: "We are looking at all possibilities."
The two people using stolen passports bought their flight tickets at the same time, and were due to fly to Europe from Beijing, according to reports.
A relative of a passenger on the flight waits for news in Beijing Flight MH370, carrying 239 passengers and crew, was travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it vanished around two hours into the flight.
The plane disappeared from radar at 1.30am (5.30pm UK time) on Friday, about 85 miles (135km) north of the Malaysian city of Kuala Terengganu.
A photo of the missing plane - seen taking off in Paris in 2011 A huge search involving 22 aircraft and 40 ships is continuing in the vast waters of the Gulf of Thailand, between Vietnam and Malaysia.
It concentrated around the Vietnamese island resort of Phu Quoc after Vietnamese air force jets spotted two huge oil slicks.
The parallel slicks - both between 10 miles (16km) and 12 miles (19km) long and 500 metres apart - were consistent with the kind of spills caused by fuel from a crashed airliner, a Vietnamese government statement said.
The jet is reported to have crashed in the ocean off southern Vietnam The search has now widened to the sea off Malacca, on the west coast of Malaysia, after radar data indicated the plane may have turned back from its scheduled route to Beijing before disappearing.
US federal safety officials said a team of experts are heading to Asia to help in the investigation.
The team includes accident investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board, as well as technical experts from the Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing.
Family members have complained of a lack of information Earlier today, Malaysia's Civil Aviation chief Azaharudin Abdul Rahman said search teams have not found any debris from the plane.
He said no other aircraft in the Malaysia Airlines fleet would be grounded and indicated there were "no abnormalities" in the data received from the flight.
Two-thirds of the jet's passengers were from China. The rest were from elsewhere in Asia, North America and Europe.
Distraught relatives and friends wait at Beijing International Airport The plane's disappearance is especially mysterious because it apparently happened when the plane was at cruising altitude, not during the more dangerous phases of take-off or landing.
Officials are examining CCTV footage of passengers boarding the plane after it emerged two passengers had been travelling on stolen passports.
The airline listed one of the passengers as a 37-year-old Italian called Luigi Maraldi.
Malaysia's Civil Aviation chief says no wreckage has yet been found However, Mr Maraldi has contacted his parents in Italy to say he was not on the airliner.
He had his passport stolen in Thailand several months ago, leaving questions over who used his passport to board the plane and whether that has anything to do with the airliner's disappearance.
Another passenger used a passport belonging to Austrian citizen Christan Kozel. He is listed as one of the passengers although he has been confirmed as safe and well by authorities.
His passport was stolen in Thailand two years ago.
Relatives are still waiting anxiously at Beijing airport for news of their loved ones.
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