Relatives of people on the missing Malaysia Airlines plane were forcibly removed from a press conference in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday.<br /><br />They were understood to have approached journalists asking for any new information and were going to stage a protest against the Malaysian authorities.<br /><br />They were dragged away and the media were banned from speaking to them.<br /><br />At the press conference, Malaysia’s transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein said he had received some new information:<br /><br />“I can confirm that we have received some radar data but we are not at liberty to release information from other countries. I appeal to all our partners to continue volunteering any and all information that could help us with the investigation,” he said.<br /><br />He also gave an update on the flight simulator found at the pilot’s house saying they had discovered data on it had been deleted and were working to retrieve it.<br /><br />He went on to discount a possible sighting of the jet in the Maldives as untrue.<br /><br />It was also announced that a team from Malaysia would be sent to Beijing to give regular briefings to families of those on board.<br /><br />Earlier on Wednesday, Thai authorities said their radar had picked up a plane around the same time the jet disappeared but said they hadn’t mentioned it before because Malaysia hadn’t asked.<br /><br />Aviation authorities say this new information could have helped them narrow down their search earlier.<br /><br />It’s now 11 days since Flight 370, with 239 people on board went missing on it’s journey from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing
