Tag: MH370

Malaysia police chief focuses on crew, pilots in criminal probe on missing MH370

(Reuters) — Malaysia is focusing its criminal investigation on the cabin crew and pilots of a missing Malaysia Airlines plane, the country’s police chief said on Wednesday (April 2). Inspector General of Police, Royal Malaysian Police Force, Khalid Abu Bakar said the passengers have been cleared of possible involvement in activity that could have been connected to the flight’s disappearance on March 8. “As we have said earlier, only the passengers has been cleared. The rest? No,” he said at a news […]

Lowered expectations as Malaysia Airlines search drags on

(Reuters) – The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 resumed on Wednesday, even as senior Australian officials warned that bad weather and a lack of reliable information were seriously impeding efforts to locate the plane’s wreckage. Up to 10 planes and nine ships from a half dozen countries are scouring a stretch of the Indian Ocean roughly the size of Britain, where the plane is believed to have crashed more than three weeks ago. The search […]

Search for lost Malaysian jet shifts significantly after new lead

(Reuters) – Australian authorities said on Friday they were shifting the focus of their Indian Ocean search for the wreckage of Malaysia’s missing jet, moving it 1,100 km (685 miles) to the northeast after receiving new information from Malaysia. For more than a week, ships and surveillance planes have been scouring seas 2,500 km (1,550 miles) southwest of Perth, where satellite images had suggested there could be debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which went […]

Chinese Aircraft reports no sighting of missing plane debris In Southern Indian Ocean

(Reuters/CCTV) — A Chinese IL-76 aircraft returned to Perth in western Australia after finding no suspicious objects in the target area in the southern Indian Ocean on Wednesday morning. The Chinese aircraft took off to at 05:17 on Wednesday morning and began searching for missing the target sea area for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. The aircraft found no suspicious objects during its eight-hour flight covering a sea area of around 7,000 square kilometers. It flew back to Perth International Airport at […]

Malaysia says jet crashed in sea; China wants evidence

(Reuters) – Malaysia said on Monday that a missing jetliner had crashed into the Indian Ocean, an announcement that was greeted with hysteria by Chinese relatives of those on board and a demand by China that Kuala Lumpur share all the evidence it had on the incident. Citing groundbreaking satellite-data analysis by the British company Inmarsat, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said that Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which vanished more than a fortnight ago while flying to […]

Malaysia says missing plane crashed in Indian Ocean

(Reuters) – The Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared over two weeks ago crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Monday. New satellite analysis from Britain had shown that Flight MH370, with 239 people on board, was last seen in the middle of the Indian Ocean west of Perth, Australia, he said in a statement. “This is a remote location, far from any possible landing sites,” Najib said. “It is therefore […]