In pictures: Search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 widens

A sea plane, right, taxis as it prepares to take off for a search flight. Hoang Dinh Nam / AFP Photo March 9

Malaysian Maritime Enforcement personnel look through binoculars during search and rescue operations. Malaysian Maritime Enforcement / AFP Photo March 9

A Malaysian Muslim woman offers prayers for passengers in Putrajaya, Malaysia. Joshua Paul / AP Photo March 9

A military personnel communicates with his colleagues by radio. Kham/ Reuters March 10

Italian Luigi Maraldi, left, whose stolen passport was used by a passenger boarding a missing Malaysian airliner, shows his passport as he reports himself to Thai police at Phuket police station. Krissada Muanhawang / AP Photo March 10

Officials inspect life jackets inside a Vietnamese Air Force plane before a search and rescue operation. Luong Thai Linh / EPA March 10

Malaysia’s Department of Civil Aviation director general Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, second from left, speaks during a press conference at a hotel in Sepang, Malaysia. Daniel Chan / AP Photo March 10

Family members of passengers aboard a missing plane cry at a hotel in Putrajaya, Malaysia. Joshua Paul

An official carries a box of life jackets inside a Vietnamese Air Force plane. Luong Thai Linh / EPA March 10

A military official looks out a window in search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Luong Thai Linh / EPA March 10

Rob Gurdebeke

Vietnamese searchers on ships worked throughout the night but could not find a rectangle object spotted Sunday afternoon that was thought to be one of the doors of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet that went missing more than two days ago.

Updated: March 10, 2014, 12:00 AM