Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said the search for missing flight MH370 is now "entering a new phase". He said the effort would now be "focussed on searching the ocean floor" over a "much larger area" than is currently being covered.
This is the text message that was sent by Malaysia Airlines to the families of missing passengers on flight MH370:
The families also received phone calls and face-to-face briefings from counsellors, according to CNN.
The relatives of passengers onboard flight MH370 know there is a huge need to keep the media’s interest in their campaign for the truth.
How has the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane progressed in the month since its disappearance?
Ships hunting for a missing Malaysia plane have picked up separate acoustic signals in different parts of a vast Indian Ocean search