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Malaysia Takes Heat as Search Drags on

It's unclear when communications system went off: officials

(Newser) - With the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 now in its 10th day and seemingly no nearer an answer, Malaysian officials are facing a rare dose of anger, both internally and externally, in the country whose media rarely question its leadership. "I've never seen anything like it, not...

Last Words From Cockpit Get Second Look
Last Words From Cockpit
Get Second Look
UPDATED
Mar 17, 2014 8:15 AM CDT

Last Words From Cockpit Get Second Look

'Good night' believed to be said by co-pilot

(Newser) - The last words from the cockpit of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370—"All right, good night"—are getting a second look. Investigators yesterday revealed they were spoken after one of the plane's communications systems had already been deliberately switched off, but Malaysian officials backpedaled on that timeline today....

Flight 370: Clues Still 'Lead Toward the Cockpit'

McCaul says it was 'intentional, deliberate act'

(Newser) - The echo chamber that is the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has yet to yield much in the way of definites, but the focus continues to remain on the pilots and the theory that the jet's disappearance was not an accident or mechanical failure. This "was an...

Another Jet Mysteriously Vanished in 2003

Boeing 727 left Uganda in 2003 and remains missing

(Newser) - For those suggesting that the disappearance of Flight 370 is unparalleled in aviation history, Vocativ would like to remind them that another large Boeing jet took off from an airstrip in Angola in 2003 and hasn't been seen since. Big difference: That jet had no passengers aboard, but the...

Malaysia: Someone Diverted Plane Deliberately

Final signal picked up 7 hours after it went missing

(Newser) - They still have no idea where the missing plane is, but Malaysia authorities now say they're certain that whatever happened was no accident, reports the Washington Post . At a news conference, the prime minister said Flight 370 went off course because of the "deliberate action by someone on...

Latest Theory Puts Renewed Focus on Pilots

But no red flags emerge about lives of Malaysian pair

(Newser) - The new theory that the missing Malaysia jet was deliberately flown for hundreds of miles off its intended course is putting new scrutiny on the plane's two pilots. Malaysian authorities say they are at least examining the possibility that one or both might have been involved in whatever happened,...

Vanished Jet Seemed to Be Following Waypoints

Sources: Military radar data suggests an experienced pilot was following flight path

(Newser) - It's looking more and more like sabotage, at least according to Reuters ' sources: Military radar data suggests the missing Malaysia Airlines jet was, in fact, flown hundreds of miles off course —deliberately. The sources say Flight 370 appears to have diverted west, then followed an airline flight...

US Says Missing Jet Sent 'Pings' After Losing Contact

Hunt expected to expand into Indian Ocean

(Newser) - Day 6 has yielded no sign of the missing Malaysian jet, only a growing belief that it continued to fly for at least four hours after its last contact with flight controllers. But even if so, authorities can't say in which direction it flew or whether, as the Washington ...

Malaysia Denies Jet Flew 4 Hours After Signal Lost

'WSJ' report said data had been transmitted from plane's engines

(Newser) - The mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has become even more baffling: US investigators believe the plane flew on for four hours after its last contact with air traffic controllers, meaning it could be anywhere in a huge area ranging from India to Australia to the southern tip of Japan,...

Satellite Company Wants You to Help Find Malaysia Jet

DigitalGlobe hopes crowdsourcing can locate plane

(Newser) - Malaysian authorities seem to have generated nothing but confusion and ill will in the hunt for Flight MH370. Now a Colorado company offers a way for people to do more than vent frustration—they can help scan satellite images, reports the Denver Post . DigitalGlobe wants people to go to its...

Jet's Last Message: 'All Right, Good Night'

All seemed well; search continues amid confusion

(Newser) - Minutes before it lost communication with flight controllers, all seemed fine aboard Flight MH370. "All right, good night," said one of the pilots in what the Telegraph reports was the plane's final transmission. Translations appear to differ slightly, with the BBC reporting it as, "All right,...

Reports Put Jet Hundreds of Miles Off Course

Malaysian airline may have been turned west, not northeast

(Newser) - This would at least explain why the search for the missing Malaysian jet has expanded to the west of late: An anonymous air force official from that nation says the plane may have ended up hundreds of miles from its expected flight path, reports CNN . Specifically, the report puts the...

Mystery Malaysia Passenger IDed

 Mystery Malaysia 
 Passengers IDed 
UPDATED
Mar 11, 2014 7:56 AM CDT

Mystery Malaysia Passengers IDed

Still no trace of missing Boeing 777

(Newser) - Another day of searching has yielded no trace of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 , but investigators have solved one of the mysteries surrounding the missing plane. The two passengers who boarded using stolen passports have been identified as Iranian men Pouria Nour Mohammadi, 18, and Delavar Seyed Mohammad Reza, 29, CNN...

Tickets of Malaysia Plane's Suspect Tied to Iranian Man

'Mr Ali' bought them for men with stolen passports, but no indication of larger plot

(Newser) - It's well past midnight in Malaysia, where the search for Flight MH370 is on hold until daylight, but developments are continuing to trickle out—though the updates are far from clarifying ones. The Financial Times follows up a report on the two men —one using an Italian passport,...

In Hunt for Malaysia Jet, Many Questions, Few Clues

Stolen passport holders spotted on CCTV

(Newser) - The fate of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight and the 239 onboard continues to stump officials. Authorities are considering every possible explanation for the disappearance, says Malaysia's civil aviation boss, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman. Among those explanations are engine failure, pilot error, or possibly suicide. But so far, searches have...

Americans on Missing Malaysia Flight IDed

Other 2 Americans were young children; not clear who they were with

(Newser) - As 40 ships and 34 planes from nine different countries continue the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 , a Texas family is praying for 50-year-old Philip Wood, one of three Americans among the 239 people on board. Wood, a technical storage exec with IBM, had been transferred from Beijing to...

Vietnam Thinks It Spotted Plane Debris

Releases photo of supposed wreckage

(Newser) - More than 36 hours into the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines 777, Vietnam says a search plane has found suspected fragments, including a tail piece and a composite inner door. Vietnam's information ministry said that the find was made off its southern coast, about 50 miles from Tho...

Missing Malaysia Jet May Have Turned Back

Radar shows it may have diverted, but precious few clues as search continues

(Newser) - The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane has so far yielded nothing more than a pair of oil slicks and suspicions over two passengers' passports , but authorities today said that radar indicates that Flight MH370 may have diverted its course or turned back before losing contact. "We are...

2 Stolen Passports Raise Early Suspicions on Jet

US officials are at least exploring the possibility of terrorism

(Newser) - Night has fallen with search crews finding no wreckage from the Malaysia Airlines jet that is presumed to have crashed into the Gulf of Thailand south of Vietnam. The only clue remains two long streaks of oil in the water. The Boeing 777 had reported no problems before disappearing from...

Oil Slicks Spotted; 239 Feared Dead in Jet Crash

Vietnam planes see them in water, but no wreckage yet; 239 people feared dead

(Newser) - Hope is fading for the 239 people aboard a Malaysia Airlines jet that vanished yesterday. Chinese media say the plane crashed off the south coast of Vietnam about 1:40pm ET as it traveled from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, reports CNN and Reuters . But no official confirmation about the fate...

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