Passengers continued to check in for Malaysia Airlines flights out of Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Saturday, two days after the state-owned company was hit by a second disaster in quick succession.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was downed over eastern Ukraine on Thursday with 298 people aboard by what US intelligence authorities believe was a surface-to-air missile.

Just four months earlier, a Malaysia Airlines jetliner carrying 239 people disappeared about an hour after taking off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

Adham Qalid, a Malaysian Airlines pilot at Kuala Lumpur airport said that he believed that the plane flew according to the flight plan which was "approved by the authorised bodies".

Passengers getting on a Malaysia Airlines flight to Brisbane showed little concern about their trip on Saturday but did express outrage at the attack.

"Well, it's just poor and it's murder. It's absolute murder," said passenger Kevin Squire.

The accident also killed a group of AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) experts heading to Australia for an international AIDS conference.

The International Civil Aviation Organisation said in a news release on Friday night that it would send a team to Ukraine at the request of the Ukrainian government to assist in the official investigation into the downed plane.

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1. Various of passengers waiting to check in for Malaysia Airlines flights

2. Screens showing bag drop information

3. Passengers waiting to check in

4. Wide of departures hall

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Adham Qalid, pilot of Malaysia Airlines:

"All the flights have been done by the flight plan and it has been approved by authorised bodies. So, actually, it's legally, it is well legal within our flight plan, planning-wise. So there is nothing illegal about it."

6. Various of passengers

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Kevin Squire, passenger to Brisbane, Australia:

"Well, it's just poor and it's murder. It's absolute murder. I don't know why the plane was flying over Donetsk, to start with. And I'm just appalled that it's happened. How many women and children are going to keep being killed? And they have been killed in Ukraine, they've been killed in Palestine. You know so it's just murder."

8. Various of Malaysia Airlines planes on tarmac, as filmed through airport window

Three days after a Malaysia Airlines jet headed to the country's capital was shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine, it was business as usual on Sunday at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

Lines of passengers stretched over several meters (yards) at the Malaysia Airlines counter.

Jo Boehler, an English passenger waiting for her flight back to London, said the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 "was a case of mistaken identity."

She also added that people should carry on flying.

Another traveller, Mr. Sze, who was accompanying his daughter about to fly to Brisbane, Australia, for her studies, said he believes that with international help the investigation into the downing will be conducted "in a proper way."

Meanwhile in Ukraine, international monitors moved gingerly on Saturday through fields reeking of the decomposing corpses that fell from the Malaysian airliner, trying to secure the sprawling site in hopes that a credible investigation can be conducted.

But before inspectors ever reach the scene, doubts arose about whether evidence was being compromised.

The Ukrainian government and separatist rebels accuse each other of firing a surface-to-air missile at the Boeing 777 with almost 300 people aboard.

Many see the hand of Russia, either for its suspected support of the insurgents or perhaps for firing the missile itself.

The jet flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur carried 298 passengers and crew from 13 countries.

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1. Kuala Lumpur International Airport departure hall

2. Line of passengers waiting to check in for Malaysia Airlines flights

3. Close and pull focus of line of passengers

4. Various of passengers at Malaysia Airlines counter

5. Tilt up of Jo Boehler, passenger from England looking at departures board

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jo Boehler, passenger from England waiting to check in for Malaysia Airlines flight to London:

"It is worrying, but I think it was a case of mistaken identity. I think it is sad for Malaysia Airlines that they have lost two airplanes this year, but you know, we have to get on with life, don't we? We just have to carry on, we can't let the terrorists win."

7. Set up of Mr. Sze, Kuala Lumpur resident, accompanying his daughter about to fly to Brisbane, Australia, for her studies

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Mr. Sze, first name not given, Kuala Lumpur resident:

"I think it will be solved eventually. International pressure will be there to make sure that this whole thing can be solved in a proper way."

9. Low angle of passengers' feet walking at airport

Almost a year since Malaysia Airlines flight 370 disappeared, Jacquita Gomes is still hoping that her husband will return.

Patrick Gomes was the inflight supervisor when the plane with 239 people on board disappeared on 8 March, 2014.

His wife now draws comfort from contact with relatives of other lost passengers and crew via the instant messaging service WhatsApp.

Online she's known as "the boss," reflecting her husband's role on the flight.

Reminders of Patrick Gomes are everywhere in her house in the Malaysian city of Petaling Jaya, near the capital Kuala Lumpur.

An embroidered picture of a horse, bought in Istanbul just after they got married nearly 30 years ago, hangs on the wall.

His old, worn out luggage case is in the store room.

Jacquita Gomes insists that the search for the missing plane must not stop until some evidence is found to suggest where the plane is.

On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 took off for Kuala Lumpur on a flight to Beijing, turned off course and disappeared.

Its fate, and that of the people on board, may be aviation's most agonizing and perplexing mystery.

Although investigators say that the plane is in the southern Indian Ocean, they are yet to find any debris or concrete evidence.

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Petaling Jaya, Malaysia - 28 February, 2015

1. Various of Jacquita Gomes, wife of MH370 inflight supervisor, Patrick Gomes

2. Close on phone screen with picture of Patrick Gomes

3. Various of Gomes holding phone showing her husband's last text messages

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jacquita Gomes, MH370 inflight supervisor Patrick Gomes' wife:

"If we're down we send each other songs, or during anniversaries 'you know this is the song that we sang together or danced together on our wedding' and then all the icons will be coming up, the emoticons, we're crying and� So we don't have to talk, (we) know that we're going through this so we just read the emoticons."

5. Close of Gomes' wedding ring

6. Various of Gomes with reporter

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Jacquita Gomes, MH370 inflight supervisor Patrick Gomes' wife:

"We do sometimes laugh things off, we just make fun of it, you know try and laugh it off and it helps a little bit."

8. Framed wedding photo

9. Low angle, Gomes speaks to reporter UPSOUND "I find my wedding photograph there."

10. Close of wedding photo

11. Wide of MH370 crew roster on fridge

12. Tight on crew roster with Patrick Gomes name shown

13. Mary and baby Jesus image on wall

14. Framed cabin crew group picture with text reading (English) "Hope, Love, Faith. Tribute to the Crew of MH370"

15. SOUNDBITE (English) Jacquita Gomes, MH370 inflight supervisor Patrick Gomes' wife:

"If this is really the end and they are really in the Indian Ocean, and we, you know totally nothing, I will still wait for them to bring my husband back. Even if it's just one finger, if it's his, at least I can say goodbye properly and I can send him up to our Lord properly, not just roaming around and waiting to come home."

16. Various of Gomes with reporter

17. SOUNDBITE (English) Jacquita Gomes, MH370 inflight supervisor Patrick Gomes' wife:

"Nothing, they still, they promised from day one that they would not stop looking. I will hold them to that promise as I've said all the time."

18. Various of Gomes family picture on wall

19. Various of horse embroidery on wall

20. Wide of luggage

21. Close of luggage with Patrick Gomes label

22. Close of name tag reading "Patrick, Inflight Supervisor"

23. Patrick Gomes' uniform

Malaysia's defence minister said on Monday that the remains of nine more victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 will be brought back to Malaysia for burial on Tuesday.

The nine include seven Malaysian citizens and two Dutch citizens, who will be buried near Kuala Lumpur as requested by their next of kin.

Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein made the announcement after chairing a meeting about the repatriation of MH17 victims' remains.

All 298 people on board died when the plane heading to Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam was shot down on July 17 over an area controlled by pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine.

An international investigation is ongoing, but no one has been arrested.

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1. Malaysian Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein arriving at news conference

2. Cutaway of cameraman

3. Pan of news conference

4. SOUNDBITE: (Malay) Hishammuddin Hussein Malaysian Defence Minister:

"These nine bodies include seven who are Malaysian citizens and two who are not and are Dutch citizens."

5. Various of news conference

6. SOUNDBITE: (Malay) Hishammuddin Hussein Malaysian Defence Minister:

"We will bring the culprits, those who were responsible for bringing down our plane, to justice. We will continue and will not stop in this effort."

7. Mid of photographers

8. Wide of news conference

9. Hishammuddin leaving

Malaysia's government on Sunday asked for help from nearly a dozen Asian countries that the missing jetliner may have flown over, saying that finding the plane would be very difficult without additional data on its final movements.

The number of countries involved in the search and rescue operation has increased from 14 to 25, the Malaysian Acting Transport Minister told a news conference in Sepang, near Kuala Lumpur, on Sunday.

"Malaysian officials are requesting support from these countries as well as others. This support includes general satellite data, radar playback both primary and secondary, provisions for ground, sea and aerial search and assets as appropriate," said Hishammuddin Hussein, Malaysian Acting Transport Minister during the news conference.

Meanwhile, police were examining a flight simulator belonging to one of the pilots of the Malaysia Airlines plane, which went missing more than a week ago with 239 passengers aboard a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

"We took position of a simulator (from one of the pilots' house), of a flight simulator and we dismantled it from the home and we assembled it at our office and we are getting experts to look at it now," said Khalid Abu Bakar, Malaysia Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar, during the same news conference.

The search area has been expanded after satellite data has shown that after losing contact with air traffic controllers, the plane could have kept flying as far north as Kazakhstan in Central Asia or deep into the southern Indian Ocean, posing awesome challenges for efforts to recover the aircraft and flight data recorders

vital to solving the mystery of what happened on board.

Meanwhile, at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, people wrote tributes on a large banner expressing hope for a safe return home of the passengers of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

Confirmation Saturday that someone on board severed the communication links with the ground and flew off course for more than six hours has triggered a formal criminal investigation into who on the plane was involved, and what motive they might have for doing so.

Malaysian authorities have not ruled out any possibilities, and to establish what happened with any degree of certainty investigators will likely need to examine information, including cockpit voice recordings, from the plane's flight data recorders should the jet be located.

Malaysian officials and aviation experts said that whoever disabled the plane's communication systems and then flew the jet must have had a high degree of technical knowledge and flying experience, putting one or both of the pilots high on the list of possible suspects.

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1. Wide of Malaysian Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein (centre), Malaysia Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar (right) and Chief Executive Officer of Malaysia Airlines Ahmad Jauhari Yahya (left) on podium for news conference

2. Close of Abu Bakar (right), Hishammuddin Hussein (centre) and Ahmad Jauhari Yahya (left) on podium

3. Wide of news conference with Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, Director General of the Malaysian Department of Civil Aviation Azharuddin Abdul Rahman (second from left on screen), Hishammuddin Hussein and Abu Bakar

4. Wide of media

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Hishammuddin Hussein, Malaysian Acting Transport Minister:

"Malaysian officials are requesting support from these countries as well as others. This support includes general satellite data, radar playback both primary and secondary, provisions for ground, sea and aerial search and assets as appropriate."

6. Wide pan right from media to speakers on podium

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Khalid Abu Bakar, Malaysia Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar:

"We took position of a simulator (from one of the pilots' house), of a flight simulator and we dismantled it from the home and we assembled it at our office and we are getting experts to look at it now."

8. Various of police officers guarding meeting room

9. Pull in of Chinese Ambassador to Malaysia Huang Huikang (black suit) entering meeting room

10. Mid of journalists trying to interview Huang

11. SOUNDBITE (English) Hermono (single name), Deputy Indonesian Ambassador to Malaysia:

"They (the Malaysian authorities) are asking for satellite data, radar playback, ground search, aerial search and also a kind of asset deployment and also permit. Permit in a sense that if the Malaysian government want to deploy its assets to the Indonesian territory, then we are asked to give permission."

12. Mid of Makio Miyagawa, Japanese Ambassador to Malaysia, talking to reporters

13. SOUNDBITE (English) Makio Miyagawa, Japanese Ambassador to Malaysia:

"We have not provided any satellite information yet, but I think this is one of the possibilities, we do have cooperate with Malaysians in the future, but it's up to the circumstances."

14. Various of people writing messages on large banner at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang

15. Close of message on banner

16. SOUNDBITE (English) Giere Daviere, student:

"People all around the world are hoping that the flight MH370 will came home fast, as soon as possible. The families are all waiting, we are all waiting, so in support for their arrival, I signed the banner."

17. Pull focus of banner reading (English): "Hope MH370" with messages from people written on it

Police officers visited the houses of pilots of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane on Saturday, as the investigation over the jetliner's whereabouts changed focus following a revelation it was deliberately diverted and continued flying for more than six hours after losing contact with the ground.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak confirmed after days of mounting speculation that the disappearance of the MH370 flight to Beijing more than a week ago was not accidental.

It refocused the investigation into the flight's crew and passengers, and underlined the massive task for searchers who already have been scouring vast areas of ocean.

Investigators were looking into all possibilities as to why the Boeing 777 deviated so drastically from its original flight path, saying authorities could not confirm whether it was a hijacking.

Earlier on Saturday, a Malaysian official had said the plane was hijacked, though he added that no motive had been established and no demands had been made known.

Pilots Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 53, and Fariq Abdul Hamid were described as respectable, community-minded men.

Zaharie joined Malaysia Airlines in 1981 and had more than 18,000 hours of experience.

His Facebook page showed an aviation enthusiast who flew remote-controlled aircraft, posting pictures of his collection, which included a lightweight twin-engine helicopter and an amphibious aircraft.

Fariq was contemplating marriage after having just graduated to the cockpit of a Boeing 777.

He has drawn scrutiny after the revelation that in 2011, he and another pilot invited two women aboard their aircraft to sit in the cockpit for a flight from Phuket, Thailand, to Kuala Lumpur.

Fourteen countries are involved in the search, which is using 43 ships and 58 aircraft.

The plane was carrying 239 people when it departed for an overnight flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing at 12:40am (local time, 16:30 GMT) on 8 March.

Its communications with civilian air controllers were severed at about 1:20am (local time, 17:20 GMT) and the jet went missing - heralding one of the most puzzling mysteries in modern aviation history.

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1. Wide of residential compound where house of Zaharie Ahmad Shah, pilot of missing Malaysian plane, is located

2. Various of security guards standing guard and cars driving through entrance at compound

3. Cutaway of journalists outside compound

4. Exterior of house of co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid, in different part of Shah Alam

5. Wide of people walking out of mosque near co-pilot's house