The police have recorded more than 200 statements in connection with the investigation into the disappearance of a Malaysian airliner, Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said on Friday.

Among those who gave the statements were relatives of the passengers and crew of the lost flight, MH370, he said.

The Boeing 777-200 aircraft, carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew, went missing on March 8 while on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Khalid said more people would be questioned by the police in their investigation into the missing plane, a multinational search for which is taking place in the southern Indian Ocean where it is believed to have gone down.

"It is an ongoing investigation. As of yesterday evening, we recorded 205 statements. More statements are to be recorded. There are certain points we have to relook to really make things clear in our investigation," he told reporters after attending an activity in conjunction with the 207th Police Day here.

Khalid also responded to the denial by the Johor Federal Agriculture Marketing Authority (Fama) that a cargo of mangosteens carried on the missing flight had come from Muar.

"The mangosteens may have not necessarily been cultivated in Johor; the supplier is from Muar. I did not say they were harvested in Muar.

"I said we will investigate up to the stage where the fruits were harvested. I did not say the orchard was in Johor. The mangosteens were gathered in Muar before being brought to the KLIA (KL International Airport)," he said.

Johor Fama had explained that the mangosteens carried on the flight had not originated from Muar because the fruit was not produced by orchards in Johor now as the season would only start in June.

Khalid also said that an investigation would be conducted to ascertain whether the food served on board Flight MH370 had been poisoned.

Flight MH370 left the KL International Airport at 12.41 am on March 8 and disappeared from radar screens about an hour later while over the South China Sea. It was to have landed in Beijing at 6.30 am on the same day.

A multinational search was mounted for the aircraft, first in the South China Sea and then, after it was learned that the plane had veered off course, along two corridors - the northern corridor stretching from the border of
Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to northern Thailand and the southern corridor, from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean.

Following an unprecedented type of analysis of satellite data, United Kingdom satellite telecommunications company Inmarsat and the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) concluded that Flight MH370 flew along the southern corridor and that its last position was in the middle of the Indian Ocean, west of Perth, Australia.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak then announced on March 24, seventeen days after the disappearance of Boeing 777-200 aircraft, that Flight MH370 "ended in the southern Indian Ocean".