KUALA LUMPUR – Forget all those satellite photos showing promising patches of debris. The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has moved again. In a stunning turn, Australian authorities announced Friday that they were abandoning the remote region of Indian Ocean where search crews had spent more than a week looking for the plane….
PERTH – Bad weather brought an early end to Thursday’s aerial search for traces of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean, authorities said. But five ships in the area are trying to keep up the search despite the difficult conditions. All the planes that had flown out to the search…
WASHINGTON – There was little in the way of a warning before the rain-saturated ground in Washington’s Cascade Mountains gave way, sending a wall of mud through a portion of the towns of Oso and Darrington. With as many as 24 dead and up to 176 people unaccounted for in the massive landslide that struck…
KUALA LUMPUR – New satellite images provided by a French defense firm show 122 objects floating in the southern Indian Ocean, not far from other satellite sightings that could be related to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the Malaysian transport minister said Wednesday. The objects were scattered over 154 square miles (400 square kilometers), acting…
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia’s prime minister has announced that missing flight MH370 crashed in the southern Indian Ocean. Najib Razak said this was the conclusion of fresh analysis of satellite data tracking the flight. Malaysia Airlines had told the families of the 239 people on board, he said. Standing sombre before the world’s media, Malaysia’s…
BEIJING – A large piece of floating debris has been spotted in the remote Indian Ocean search zone for missing flight MH370, it was revealed yesterday. Chinese satellites picked up signs of a “suspicious” object measuring 22 metres by 30 metres in an area 100km west of where Australia reported an earlier sighting of floating…
KUALA LUMPUR – The second day of an international search for a missing Malaysian airliner has concluded without any sightings of debris in the southern Indian Ocean. The operation is due to start again on Saturday with extra vessels joining the search, Australian officials say. Five aircraft took part in Friday’s search for flight MH370,…
PERTH – Australia is investigating two objects seen on satellite images that could potentially be linked to the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, officials say. Planes and ships from Australia, New Zealand and the US were heading to the area 2,500km (1,550 miles) south-west of Perth to search for the objects. The largest appeared to be…
KUALA LUMPUR – Whoever reached across the dimly lit cockpit of a Malaysia Airlines jet and clicked off a transponder to make Flight MH370 vanish from controllers’ radars flew the plane into a navigational and technical black hole. By choosing that exact place and time to vanish into radar darkness with 238 others on board,…
KUALA LUMPUR – Officials in Malaysia say they believe the co-pilot of missing flight MH370 spoke the last words to ground controllers before it vanished. Investigators are looking into the possibility that the aircraft’s crew were involved in its disappearance. The search for the plane has extended into two vast air corridors. Twenty-six countries have…
