UPDATED – 4/17/2014 11:01 a.m.

Australia supplied a navy ship equipped with a U.S.-supplied black box detector in order to locate MH370’s signal on April 4. Every airliner contains a black box, which records flight data and location information. Authorities are searching for MH370’s black box to determine the true cause of its course change and disappearance. 

The first black box signal was detected by a Chinese vessel, but did not show the plane’s position. On April 9 authorities announced that they are getting closer to pinpointing MH370’s location and would soon begin searching the ocean floor.

ORIGINAL STORY

Below is the timeline of the recent events surrounding the disappearance of Flight MH370 from Malaysia. Click the arrow on the right side of the page to advance to more recent events and the arrow on the left side of the page to return to the previous event. As stated in the title, events in the story are still occurring and will be continuously updated until the story’s conclusion.