Officials are investigating the identity of four passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight - but have not determined if the plane was downed in an attack, Malaysia's defence and transport minister has said.
Speaking during a news conference in Kuala Lumpur, Hishamuddin Hussein said: "All the four names are with me."
He confirmed that Malaysian investigators had met counterparts from the FBI, and said the investigation was focusing on "the entire passenger manifest".
Meanwhile, US federal safety officials have said a team of experts are heading to Asia to assist 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.
A relative of a passenger on the flight waits for news in Beijing Earlier today, Malaysia's Civil Aviation chief Azaharudin Abdul Rahman said the international search for the Boeing 777-200 with 239 people on board has resumed.
But he said that so far, search teams have been unable to locate the aircraft which disappeared more than 24 hours ago.
"The rescue operations have started this morning using three aircraft and they are there now at the site," he said.
The two oil slicks seen off Vietnam "So far there is no report of any sightings ... we have extended our area of operations which includes the west side of Malaysia."
Mr Rahman confirmed that "all angles" were being investigated, including the possibility of terrorism, and that no other aircraft in the Malaysia Airlines fleet would be grounded.
Flight MH370 was flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it lost communication around two hours into the flight.
The plane disappeared from radar at 1.30am (5.30pm UK time) 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 Two-thirds of the jet's passengers were from China. The rest were from elsewhere in Asia, North America and Europe.
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.
Two large oil slicks spotted on Saturday by the Vietnamese air force offered the first sign that the jet had crashed into the sea off the south coast of Vietnam, but Mr Rahman stressed these have not yet been verified.
A Vietnamese government statement said the two 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.
Rescue boats have been sent to the area from the nearby island of Phu Quoc to look for survivors.
The jet is reported to have crashed in the ocean off southern Vietnam The US Navy is already helping teams from Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore search the vast waters in the Gulf of Thailand, between Malaysia and Vietnam.
US officials told NBC News they have not ruled out terrorism after it was discovered two passengers were travelling on stolen passports
The airline listed one of the passengers on the plane as a 37-year-old Italian called Luigi Maraldi.
However, Mr Maraldi has contacted his parents 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.
Family members have complained of a lack of information Mr Miraldi's father said his son's passport had been stolen a year and a half ago while he was travelling in Thailand.
"He deposited it with a car rental agency and when he returned the car it was gone," Walter Maraldi said.
Another passenger was using 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.
He said his passport was also stolen in Thailand when he visited two years ago.
Journalist Leo Lewis, at Beijing airport, told Sky News families were waiting anxiously for news of their relatives.
Distraught relatives and friends wait at Beijing International Airport He said there were "scenes of considerable distress" and "increasing irritation" because of a lack of information about their fate.
A woman whose mother was on the plane waited for hours without any news and expressed her anger at the way the airline is handling the incident.
Describing the scene inside the room where some 500 relatives are waiting for news, she said: "They used a bus to bring us here, in this hotel. They only give us bread, biscuits and water, that's all.
"There is nobody from the airline, not even one person. Every time I ask 'where is the airline staff; what's the latest?' They say, 'we are only volunteers, we're hotel staff, we're not from the airline'."
The plane left Kuala Lumpur at 12.41am local time on Saturday and was due to arrive in Beijing at 6.30am local time.
Malaysia's Civil Aviation chief says no wreckage has yet been found Malaysia Airlines said the flight was carrying 227 passengers, including two infants, and 12 crew members.
They were from 14 countries - 152 plus one baby from China, 38 from Malaysia, 12 from Indonesia, seven from Australia, three from the US, three from France, two from New Zealand, two from Ukraine, two from Canada, one from Russia, one from Taiwan, and one from the Netherlands.
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