KUALA LUMPUR, March 9 ― Malaysia Airlines (MAS) yesterday has released an official manifest of the 229 passengers and crew aboard flight MH 370 that went missing en route from Kuala Lumpur International Airport to Beijing, China.

Two passengers -- Italian Luigi Maraldi and Austrian Christian Kozel ― are believed to have boarded using passports stolen from their owners.

MH370 went missing less than an hour after it departed from KLIA at 12.40am yesterday.