Chinese force reaches suspected crash site, no sign of plane

Singaporean vessels searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines passenger plane have found some suspicious floating objects according to Vietnamese official media reports.

The Singaporean searchers have reported the finding to their Vietnamese counterparts, who are expected to arrive at the area in less than three hours.

Meanwhile, a Chinese coast guard vessel has entered the waters near the suspected site of the missing Malaysian plane to carry out a rescue mission.

All crew members on board the coast guard vessel are now working in six teams in charge of lookout, search, communication, medical treatment, motorboat rescue and logistic supplies, according to China's State Oceanic Administration.

Contact with the flight was lost along with its radar signal at 1:20 a.m. Beijing time on Saturday when it was flying over the Ho Chi Minh air traffic control area in Vietnam.

The flight was carrying 12 crew members and 227 passengers, including 154 Chinese.

Relatives of missing passengers to leave for Malaysia

Malaysia Airlines says it will help direct relatives of passengers on board its missing flight to fly from Beijing to Kuala Lumpur on Monday morning.

The airline's spokesman says the carrier will arrange for five relatives of each passenger on the MH370 flight to go to Kuala Lumpur, its point of departure, but the first departure will carry only two relatives of each passenger.

The airline is registering passengers' family members, while the exact departure time of the Monday flight has not yet been confirmed.

A 93-person work group has come from the company's Kuala Lumpur headquarters to take care of passengers' families and handle their passports and visas.

Rescue teams from Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam and China are making all-out efforts to locate the plane, but no breakthrough has been made yet.

The Chinese government dispatched an emergency response team and two navy warships to join the search and rescue mission on Sunday.