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Satellite Company Wants You to Help Find Malaysia Jet

Mar 12, 2014 10:46 AM CDT

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'

Mar 12, 2014 7:58 AM CDT

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

Mar 11, 2014 1:50 PM CDT

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...

How a Plane Can Just Vanish

Mar 11, 2014 12:32 PM CDT

How a Plane Can Just Vanish

Experts answer questions after Malaysian Airlines disappearance

(Newser) - The disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines flight is raising plenty of questions beyond "where is it"? For instance, how, in an age of constant tracking, could it have vanished? And how could it have fallen from the sky? A look around at some of the answers being offered...

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

updated

Mar 10, 2014 2:17 PM CDT

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 Vast Hunt for Malaysia Jet, Many Questions, Few Clues

In Hunt for Malaysia Jet,
Many Questions, Few Clues

Mar 10, 2014 7:59 AM CDT

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

Mar 10, 2014 4:44 AM CDT

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

Mar 9, 2014 9:59 AM CDT

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

Mar 9, 2014 7:30 AM CDT

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

Mar 8, 2014 12:12 PM CST

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

Mar 8, 2014 7:33 AM CST

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...