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8.49am GMT

Good morning from London. It’s been more than 12 hours now since flight MH370 disappeared. Flightradar24, a website that shows live air traffic around the world, has tweeted a screengrab, which you can see below, of the last reported position of the plane.

Photograph: flightradar24/AP

9.02am GMT

Malaysian Airlines has just issued another press release. It says it is ”still unable to establish any contact or determine the whereabouts of flight MH370”.

It has also updated its list of the nationalities of people on board to include the number of Indian nationals. They were missed off the earlier list ”due to confusion between the country code of Indonesia and India”.

Here’s the statement in full:

Malaysia Airlines is still unable to establish any contact or determine the whereabouts of flight MH370. Earlier today, Subang ATC had lost contact with the aircraft at 2.40am. The last known position of MH370 before it disappeared off the radar was 065515 North (longitude) and 1033443 East (latitude).

We are still trying to locate the current location of the flight based on the last known position of the aircraft. We are working with the International search and rescue teams in trying to locate the aircraft. So far, we have not received any emergency signals or distress messages from MH370. We are working with authorities and assure that all sources are deployed to assist with the search and rescue mission.

The passenger manifest will not be released until all families of the passengers have been informed. The flight was carrying a total number of 239 passengers and crew – comprising 227 passengers (including 2 infants) and 12 crew members.

We are deploying our “Go Team” to Beijing which will depart Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 4.30pm with a team of caregivers and volunteers to assist the family members of the passengers.

The passengers are of 14 different nationalities. All crew on-board are Malaysians.

Please take note that the earlier statement did not include the number of Indian nationals. This was due to confusion between the country code of Indonesia and India.

The below table shows the latest number of passengers and their nationalities:-

China/Taiwan 154 including infant

Malaysia 38

India 5

Indonesia 7

Australia 6

France 4

USA 3 including infant

New Zealand 2

Ukraine 2

Canada 2

Russia 1

Italy 1

Netherlands 1

Austrian 1