<sod >Flight 370 took off from Kuala Lumpur on what should have been a six-hour flight to Beijing early on Saturday morning and last made contact with ground control officials about 35,000 feet above the Gulf of Thailand between Malaysia and southern Vietnam before vanishing from the radar screens of controllers at 1.31am.< eod>< sod > Vietnamese Navy's Deputy Commander Rear Admiral Le Minh Thanh speaks to reporters (Getty) Flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur on what should have been a six-hour flight to Beijing early on Saturday morning and last made contact with ground-control officials about 35,000 feet above the Gulf of Thailand between Malaysia and southern Vietnam before vanishing from the radar screens of controllers at 1.33am.< eod>