Attempt to call missing jet may alter search area

By Rod McGuirk

Published August 28, 2014 7:11pm ET

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Attempt to call missing jet may alter search area — In this March 23, 2014 photo, Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss, right, talks with John Rice, senior search and rescue officer and mission coordinator for the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, at rescue coordination center of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority in Canberra. Just weeks before the hunt for the missing Malaysian airliner is set to resume, an Australian official said Thursday, Aug. 28, that the sprawling search area in the southern Indian Ocean may be extended farther south based on a new analysis of a failed attempt to call the plane by satellite phone. Truss said the analysis of the call, attempted by Malaysia Airlines officials on the ground soon after Flight 370 disappeared from radar, "suggests to us that the aircraft might have turned south a little earlier than we had previously expected." (AP Photo/Graham Tidy, Pool) | Graham Tidy

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Shortly after the missing Malaysian airliner disappeared from radar, airline officials on the ground tried repeatedly to call the crew of the Boeing 777 using a satellite phone that might have left clues to the jet’s flight path.

Now an analysis of those failed attempts to reach Flight 370 could alter the search for the plane.

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