The authorities are investigating the possibility of foul play following a report that an Italian national listed on MH370's passenger manifest never boarded the plane.
 
Passenger Luigi Maraldi, 37, was listed on the passenger manifest released by Malaysia Airlines earlier, but Italian newspaper Corriere Della Serra reported that he was not on the plane.
 
Maraldi reportedly lost his passport in Thailand last August.
 
"They (Malaysian authorities) have it (the information) but it is still under (review)," Deputy Transport Minister Aziz Kaprawi told reporters late this evening at a hotel near KLIA.
 
According to Department of Civil Aviation's Azharuddin Abdul Rahman authorities have looked through all CCTV footage of the passengers as well as baggage.
 
"So far we are satisfied," he said, adding that further information cannot be revealed for security reasons.

Another person didn't board plane?

Corriere Della Serra reported that Maraldi's parents said that their son is not aboard the plane which went missing at 1.30am today.
 
This comes as CNN reported that Austrian officials confirm that the sole Austrian listed on the manifest, Christian Kozel, did not board the plane and had his passport stolen.
 
"An Austrian citizen listed as a passenger on missing Malaysia Airlines plane was not aboard, and his passport had been stolen two years ago, official tells CNN ," the news brief on CNN's website reads.
 
Malaysia Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, however, cautioned against further speculation.
 
"These are reports which we need to form. As far as we are concerned, it is just a report.
 
"We are working foreign embassies to ensure we can confirm the report...
 
"Speculations have begun since this morning and every speculation has been squashed," he said.

Asked if this could indicate possible hijacking, he said that MAS and the authorities are "not ruling anything out".

 
Air traffic controllers lost radar contact with the Boeing 777-200 at the border of the Malaysian and Vietnamese airspace about 120 nautical miles off the coast of Kota Bharu en route Beijing.
 
239 passenger and crew were on board, including 152 Chinese nationals and 38 Malaysians.
 
The flight which went missing while flying above the South China Sea is also a code share flight with China Southern Airline.