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 "Instead of staying in hotels, the families of MH370 are advised to receive information updates on the progress of the search and investigation and other support by Malaysia Airlines within the comfort of their own homes, with the support and care of their families and friends," the airline said in a news release. The briefing at the Lido Hotel came on the day that the Malaysian government released its preliminary report on the plane's March 8 disappearance. Malaysian air traffic controllers kept in communication with the airline, which gave them yet another seemingly reassuring message at 2:35 a.m. 
 
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 Photos: The search for MH370 Photos: The search for MH370 Two years after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing, a relative of one of the passengers burns incense in Beijing on March 8, 2016. The five-page report, embedded below, reveals that it was 17 minutes before officials noticed Flight 370, which disappeared on March 8 at 1:21 a.m., had vanished from the radar. 'People started to break down' 
 
 Sarah Bajc, the American partner of Flight 370 passenger Philip Wood, said she was one of about 500 people at Thursday's Lido Hotel meeting. Hide Caption 16 of 43 Photos: The search for MH370 The sole representative for the families of Flight 370 passengers leaves a conference at a Beijing hotel on March 28, 2014, after other relatives left en masse to protest the Malaysian government's response to their questions. Hide Caption 17 of 43 Photos: The search for MH370 A member of the Royal Australian Air Force is silhouetted against the southern Indian Ocean during the search for the missing jet on March 27, 2014. Hide Caption 31 of 43 Photos: The search for MH370 Malaysian air force members look for debris near Kuala Lumpur on March 13, 2014. Hide Caption 39 of 43 Photos: The search for MH370 Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, center, arrives to meet family members of missing passengers at the reception center at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on March 8, 2014.  Story highlights Submersible completes 27-hour search mission, starts next one 
 
 Malaysia Airlines is closing relatives' support centers, urging relatives to return home 
 
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 Relatives of vanished Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 passengers wailed and yelled in a Beijing hotel Thursday as the airline announced it was closing the assistance centers where they'd been gathered for weeks -- effectively telling the families to go home. GeoResonance defends Bay of Bengal claim 
 
 Meanwhile, the private company that says it may have found plane wreckage in the Bay of Bengal defended its claim, even though it wouldn't detail the technology it used. Calm was restored when Chinese officials continued the briefing and ensured the families that the search would continue, and that the relatives wouldn't be forgotten, a CNN crew outside the briefing room reported.
– The first report on the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is out, and it reveals that Malaysian officials didn't notice the plane had disappeared from radar for 17 minutes—and they took four hours to muster an official rescue operation. CNN reports that the plane went off radar at 1:21am on March 8; at 1:38am, air traffic control in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, asked Malaysian air traffic control about the plane's whereabouts. More: As for the four-hour gap that followed, the preliminary report details no activities taken during that time beyond noting that Kuala Lumpur was in touch with Singapore, Hong Kong, and Cambodia. In fact, the five-page report doesn't detail much, notes CNN, which points out the preliminary report on Air France 447's 2009 disappearance numbered 128 pages. Mashable has the full report here. The report includes a sole safety recommendation, which was also made after the Air France disaster: that real-time tracking of commercial flights be required. Today's update was preceded by another, from Malaysia Airlines, directed to the families of the flight's passengers: Go home. The airline says it will shut down the support centers it has been operating "around the world" by Wednesday; the center at the Lido Hotel in Beijing will close tomorrow. Relatives had been receiving daily briefings at these locations, reports CNN. Now, the airline's CEO says in a statement that they will instead be updated "within the comfort of their own homes, with the support and care of their families and friends." The AP notes that the airline, which has been putting the relatives up in hotels, plans to establish "family support centers" in Kuala Lumpur and Beijing.