The last communication received from a Malaysia Airlines plane suggests everything was normal on board minutes before it went missing over the South China Sea, Malaysian authorities say.
Flight MH370 replied "All right, roger that" to a radio message from Malaysian air control, authorities said.
The search has been widened to waters off both sides of the peninsula.
Meanwhile Chinese authorities have published images of what they suggest may be three pieces of wreckage.
The website of China's State Administration of Science carries three satellite images taken on Sunday - a day after the plane went missing.
The images, which appear to show fragments in the sea, were only published on Wednesday. Co-ordinates alongside them would place the objects in the South China Sea between Malaysia and Vietnam.
The China-bound plane went missing on Saturday with 239 people on board.
It vanished about an hour after it took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport, as it flew south of Vietnam's Ca Mau peninsula. No distress signal or message was sent.
Malaysian authorities revealed the plane's last communication at a news conference held in Beijing for relatives of the 154 Chinese who are among the missing passengers.'Confusing' information
As the plane reached the boundary between Malaysian and Vietnamese airspace, the Malaysian air control announced it was handing over to Ho Chi Minh City Control.
Minutes later, all contact with Flight MH370 was lost.
China's foreign ministry said there was "too much confusion" regarding the information released about the plane's flight path.
"It is very hard for us to decide whether a given piece of information is accurate," spokesman Qin Gang told reporters in Beijing.
Family members have been frustrated by the lack of information about the plane's fate
There are conflicting reports of the plane's last location as the search enters its fifth day
Indonesian Air Force crewman prayed prior to a search for the missing plane
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