1. MISSING PLANE New day, new changes: The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is taking another turn – this time hundreds of miles away. Australian investigators say an analysis of radar data led them to move the search to an area 1,100 kilometers (680 miles) to the northeast. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority calls the new […]
1. MISSING PLANE Grounded again: The weather isn’t cooperating in the search for traces of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean. Rough skies, nearly zero visibility and ice brought an early end to today’s search. For now, the suspension of the air search dims hopes that the teams might soon be able to […]
1. MISSING PLANE It’s going to take time: Nearly three weeks after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 crashed into the southern Indian Ocean, search teams have little to show for their efforts. Complex calculations based on satellite data indicate about where the Boeing 777 went down, but no debris has been recovered that can be linked to […]
1. MISSING PLANE Not getting any easier: It’s not getting any easier to find possible debris from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Here’s how a top Australian defense official described it. “We’re not searching for a needle in a haystack,” Mark Binskin, vice chief of the Australian Defence Force, told reporters. “We’re still trying to find […]
1. MISSING PLANE A hole in a foul-play theory: Malaysian authorities said yesterday that the last transmission from the missing jetliner’s Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System showed it was heading to Beijing – a revelation that appears to undercut the theory that someone reprogrammed the plane’s flight path before the co-pilot signed off with air traffic controllers […]
1. MISSING PLANE Sea of questions: Australia says it wants to get answers for the families of those aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner. And it’s scouring the southern Indian Ocean for objects it says may be related to the search for the jetliner. While this is the best lead yet on where plane might be, confirming […]
1. MISSING PLANE Objects spotted in water: Could this be the big break for the loved ones of those aboard the Malaysia Airlines flight?Australian authorities say they’ve spotted two objects in the southern Indian Ocean that may be debris from the missing jetliner. The objects are indistinct but of “reasonable size” – the largest about 24 meters […]
1. MISSING PLANE The clock ticks. The search widens: The box containing the missing Malaysia Airlines’ flight-data and cockpit-voice recorders has batteries designed to keep it sending out pings for 30 days. The clock is ticking. The search is now in its 12th day and covers an area roughly the size of the continental United States. That […]
1. MISSING PLANE New day, old questions: Another day breaks with no answers on vanished Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. As sometimes conflicting theories rage about where the plane might be, crews from 26 nations are scouring vast swaths of ocean and land for traces. Authorities say every one of the 239 people on board is both […]
1. MISSING PLANE Mystery deepens: If you were a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner, where would you be? Nine days after Flight 370 disappeared with 239 people on board, authorities are still scratching their heads. Twenty-four nations are involved in a search that spans thousands of miles, extends over 11 countries and stretches as far north as Kazakhstan […]
1. MISSING PLANE From a chess board to a football field: That’s how one expert described the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane after clues emerged that it may have gone down in the Indian Ocean. That’s the opposite direction of the flight path. We’re on Day 6 now – and every lead […]
1. MISSING PLANE More clues, few answers: The puzzle over the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 grew even more complex today when a report emerged suggesting the missing plane may have flown on for about four hours after its last reported contact. The report from the Wall Street Journal said U.S. aviation investigators and […]
