China ship hears ‘signal’; unclear if jet-related
A Chinese ship involved in the hunt for the missing Malaysian jetliner reported hearing a “pulse signal” Saturday in southern Indian Ocean waters with the same frequency emitted by the plane’s data recorders, as Malaysia vowed not to give up the search for the aircraft.
Seabed of jet hunt zone mostly flat
Two miles beneath the sea surface where satellites and planes are looking for debris from the missing Malaysian jet, the ocean floor is cold, dark, covered in a squishy muck of dead plankton and — in a potential break for the search — mostly flat. The troubling exception is a steep, rocky drop ending in a deep trench.
New objects seen, but still no evidence of jet
A day after the search for the Malaysian jetliner shifted to a new area of the Indian Ocean, ships on Saturday plucked objects from the sea to determine whether they were related to the missing jet.
Missing plane ‘black box’ chirps gone by mid-April
Equipment inside two nearly indestructible boxes aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines plane recorded critical information that would help investigators reconstruct what went wrong.
Satellite clue ends wild theories, hope for MH370
Over an extraordinary 17 days and nights, until the moment Malaysia’s prime minister stepped to a lectern to deliver investigators’ sobering new findings, the fate of vanished Flight 370 hung on morbid conjecture and fragile hope.
China demands satellite data from flight
China demanded that Malaysia turn over the satellite data used to conclude that a Malaysia Airlines jetliner had crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, killing everyone on board, as gale-force winds and heavy rain on Tuesday halted the search for remains of the plane.
Race is on to find airliner’s black boxes
Time is running out to find the crucial keys that could solve the mystery of how and why Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went down.
Malaysian PM: Flight 370 crashed into Indian Ocean
A new analysis of satellite data indicates the missing Malaysia Airlines plane crashed into a remote corner of the Indian Ocean, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said today.
Jet search area: Distant, dangerous, dazzling
The scientists and support staff stationed on Amsterdam Island find professional value in being about as far away from the hubbub of humanity as it’s possible to get. But this week, some of them wandered down to the southern Indian Ocean shoreline to look for the floating objects that could help explain the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
Australia checking two objects in search for plane
Military search planes flew over a remote part of the Indian Ocean today hunting for debris in “probably the best lead” so far in finding the missing Malaysia Airlines flight, officials said.
What if the missing Malaysia plane is never found?
The plane must be somewhere. But the same can be said for Amelia Earhart’s.
Why do plane transponders have an ‘off switch?’
Ever since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared, a fascinated public has asked: Why can somebody in the cockpit shut off the transponder?
China finds no terror link to its nationals on jet
Checks into the background of the Chinese citizens on board the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner have uncovered no links to terrorism, the Chinese ambassador in Kuala Lumpur said today.