Tag: Malaysia Airlines Disaster

In this map provided on Wednesday, April 23, 2014, by the Joint Agency Coordination Centre, details are presented in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean. The hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet will likely soon deploy more powerful sonar equipment that can delve deeper as the current search of the most likely crash site in the Indian Ocean has failed to yield any clues, Australia's defense minister said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Joint Agency Coordination Centre) EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Material on Australian shore not from Malaysia jet

Rod McGuirk · April 24, 2014 12:23 am

Ground crew check the Malaysia Airlines flight MH192 bound for Bangalore that turned back towards and parked at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia, Monday, April 21, 2014, after its right landing gear malfunctioned upon takeoff. The airline says Flight 192 carrying 166 people landed safely at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport early Monday, four hours after it departed. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Australia signals deeper search for Malaysian jet

Rod McGuirk · April 23, 2014 6:02 am

Flight officer Rayan Gharazeddine on board a Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion, searches for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in southern Indian Ocean, Australia, Saturday, March 22, 2014. A satellite image released by China on Saturday offers the latest sign that wreckage from a Malaysia Airlines plane lost for more than two weeks could be in a remote stretch of the southern Indian Ocean where planes and ships have been searching for three days. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, Pool)

Why are Americans obsessed with missing plane?

Margie Mason · April 21, 2014 2:22 pm

Malaysian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Hamzah Zainudin, left, listens as Malaysia's acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein answers a question from a journalist during a press conference on the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Saturday, April 19, 2014. An underwater robotic submarine is expected to finish searching a narrowed down area of the Indian Ocean seabed for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane within the next week, after completing six missions and so far coming up empty, the search coordination center said Saturday. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Sub search for missing jet to be finished in week

Margie Mason · April 20, 2014 3:05 am

One of relatives of Chinese passengers onboard the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 grieves at a hotel conference room in Beijing, China, Friday, April 18, 2014. A robotic submarine headed back down into the depths of the Indian Ocean on Friday to scour the seafloor for any trace of the missing Malaysian jet one month after the search began off Australia's west coast, as data from the sub's previous missions turned up no evidence of the plane.(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Chinese relatives pray over lost Malaysian plane

Margie Mason · April 19, 2014 3:00 am

FILE - In this April 7,2014 file photo, the chief coordinator of the Joint Agency Coordination Center retired Chief Air Marshall Angus Houston listens to a question from the media during a press conference about the ongoing search operations for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in Perth, Australia. Houston has become the global face of the massive monthlong search operation off Australia's west coast to find the missing Boeing 777, which is believed to be resting somewhere on the silt-covered bottom of the Indian Ocean in a patch the size of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)

Australia’s Houston: Calm face of Flight 370 hunt

Margie Mason · April 18, 2014 9:08 am

A U.S Navy P-8 Poseidon prepares to takes off from Perth International Airport en route to rejoin the ongoing search operations for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, in Perth, Australia, Friday, April 18, 2014. Investigators were analyzing data collected by a robotic submarine that completed its first successful scan of the seabed Thursday in the hunt for the missing Malaysian plane, but say tests have ruled out that a nearby oil slick came from the aircraft. (AP Photo/Theron Kirkman)

Energy and Environment

Sub scours ocean for missing Malaysian jet

Margie Mason · April 18, 2014 4:53 am

Malaysia Plane: Ocean Floor Images ‘Very Clear’

Malaysia Plane: Ocean Floor Images ‘Very Clear’

Washington Examiner · April 17, 2014 4:40 pm

In a Monday, April 14, 2014 photo provided by the U.S. Navy, operators aboard the Australian defense vessel Ocean Shield move the U.S. Navy's Bluefin-21 autonomous underwater vehicle into position for deployment to search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. On Tuesday, April 15, 2014, the U.S. Navy and search coordinators said that a built-in safety feature aborted what was supposed to have been a 16-hour mission to create a sonar map of the ocean floor after only six hours. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, MC1 Peter D. Blair)

Robot sub makes first complete search for plane

Margie Mason · April 17, 2014 12:12 am

In a Monday, April 14, 2014 photo provided by the U.S. Navy, operators aboard the Australian defense vessel Ocean Shield move the U.S. Navy's Bluefin-21 autonomous underwater vehicle into position for deployment to search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. On Tuesday, April 15, 2014, the U.S. Navy and search coordinators said that a built-in safety feature aborted what was supposed to have been a 16-hour mission to create a sonar map of the ocean floor after only six hours. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, MC1 Peter D. Blair)

Sub makes 2nd dive to search for Malaysian plane

Margie Mason · April 16, 2014 10:49 am

Relatives of Chinese passengers on board the missing Malaysia Airlines 370 wait in a room after walking out to protest the difficulties of communicating with Malaysian officials through video conferencing in Beijing, China, Wednesday, April 16, 2014. A robotic submarine looking for the lost Malaysian jet continued its second seabed search on Wednesday as up to 14 planes were to take to the skies for some of the final sweeps of the Indian Ocean for floating debris from the ill-fated airliner. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

If filed, plane lawsuits might not get heard in US

Gillian Wong · April 16, 2014 9:27 am

FILE - In this March 11, 2014 file photo, members of the media scramble with their smart phones and cameras to photograph pictures of the two men, a 19-year-old Iranian identified by Malaysian police as Pouria Nour Mohammad Mehrdad, left, and the man on the right, his identity still not released, who boarded the missing Malaysia Airlines jet MH370 with a stolen passports, held up by a Malaysian policewoman during a press conference, in Sepang, Malaysia. News early on that two of the 239 passengers on board used stolen passports fueled speculation of terrorism. However, Malaysian police determined that the men were Iranians seeking to illegally migrate to Europe and not terrorists. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

False leads in search for missing jet

The Associated Press · April 14, 2014 3:06 pm