Even though search has intensified, nothing concrete has been found in relation to Malaysian Airlines Flight MH 370 that disappeared on Saturday while carrying 239 passengers. Today, it is being reported that, some relatives who have been calling the cell phones of their loved ones claim the phones are RINGING…

According to the Washington Post, family of some of the 239 people on board the vanished Boeing 777 said that they were getting ring tones and could see them active online through a Chinese social networking service called QQ.

One man said that the QQ account of his brother-in-law showed him as online, but frustratingly for those waiting desperately for any news, messages sent have gone unanswered and the calls have not been picked up.

This new eerie development comes as the Malaysian authorities said they had identified one of the men on two stolen European passports who were on the flight – and that he was not considered likely to be a terrorist…

The International Business Times has reported that the sister of one of the Chinese passengers also rang his phone on live television.

‘This morning, around 11:40, I called my older brother’s number twice, and I got the ringing tone,’ said Bian Liangwei, sister of one of the passengers according to IBT.

At 2pm, Bian called again and heard it ringing once more.

‘If I could get through, the police could locate the position, and there’s a chance he could still be alive.’

However, at a press conference in Beijing, Malaysian Airlines spokesman Ignatius Ong said one of the numbers that had been passed on to the airline’s head office in Kuala Lumpur failed to get through.

‘I myself have called the number five times while the airline’s command center also called the number. We got no answering tone,’ said Ong.

Indeed, authorities Authorities hunting for the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner expanded their search on land and sea Tuesday, reflecting the difficulties in locating traces of the plane more than three days after it vanished.

Malaysia Airlines said in a statement the western coast of the country, near the Straits of Malacca, was ‘now the focus’ of the hunt. That is on the other side of peninsular Malaysia from where flight 370 was reported missing.

With all our technological advancements, it is sad that 3 days after the plane disappeared with trace, we’ve not been able to locate it or tell the families of those on board any thing substantive.