Tag: Plane Crashes

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

FILE - In this April 5, 2014 file photo, pilots look out of a window from the cockpit in a U.S. Navy P-8 Poseidon plane as it taxies to the end of the runway to take off from Perth Airport on route to conduct search operations for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in southern Indian Ocean, near the coast of Western Australia. Every day from the Perth airport and a nearby military base, about a dozen planes from several countries take flight to search for debris from missing Flight 370 _ so far without success. The U.S. Defense Department alone committed $7.3 million to the effort in the first month of the search, much of it spent on two U.S. Navy P-8 Poseidon planes that cost $4,000 per hour to fly. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)

AP Interview: Adam Schantz, US Navy plane searcher

Nick Perry · April 11, 2014 6:10 am

The chief coordinator of the Joint Agency Coordination Center retired Chief Air Marshall Angus Houston shows a map to the media during a press conference about the on going search operations for wreckage and debris of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in Perth, Australia, Monday, April 7, 2014. Houston reported the towed pinger locator deployed from the Ocean Shield has detected two signals consistent with those emitted by an in flight back box recorder, in the northern part of the current search area in the southern Indian Ocean. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)

‘Promising lead’ emerges in hunt for Flight 370

Nick Perry · April 8, 2014 12:39 am

A Chinese Ilyushin IL-76s aircraft taxies along the tarmac at Perth International Airport after returning from search operations for wreckage and debris of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in Perth, Australia, Monday, April 7, 2014. The chief coordinator of the Joint Agency Coordination Center Chief Air Marshall Angus Houston (Ret'd) reported April 7, 2014 that the towed pinger locator deployed from the Ocean Shield has detected two signals consistent with those emitted by an in flight back box in the northern part of the current search area in the southern Indian.(AP Photo/Rob Griffith)

Another jet-search unknown: How much it’s costing

Leon DrouinKeith · April 7, 2014 10:30 am

Malaysia official hopeful about lost jet search

Malaysia official hopeful about lost jet search

Washington Examiner · April 7, 2014 9:57 am

FILE - In this April 6, 2014 file photo, retired Australian Air Chief Marshall Angus Houston speaks to the media during a press conference about the ongoing search operations for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in Perth, Australia. Houston, who is overseeing the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, said Monday, April 7, 2014, underwater sounds picked up by equipment on an Australian navy ship are consistent with transmissions from black box recorders on a plane. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)

Statement from coordinator of hunt for missing jet

Washington Examiner · April 7, 2014 5:32 am

A woman ties a message card for passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, at a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Saturday, April 5, 2014. Search teams racing against time to find the flight recorders from the missing Malaysia Airlines jet crisscrossed another patch of the Indian Ocean on Saturday, four weeks to the day after the airliner vanished. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)

More ships head to probe signals in plane search

EILEEN NGNICK PERRY · April 6, 2014 4:58 am

FILE - In this Sunday, March 30, 2014 file photo, the Australian navy ship Ocean Shield lies docked at naval base HMAS Stirling while being fitted with a towed pinger locator to aid in her roll in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in Perth, Australia. Crews searching for the jet launched a targeted underwater hunt on Friday, April 4 for the plane's black boxes along a stretch of remote ocean, with just days left before the devices' batteries are expected to run out. The Ocean Shield, which is dragging a towed pinger locator from the U.S. Navy, and the British navy's HMS Echo, which has underwater search gear on board, will converge along a 240-kilometer (150-mile) track in a desolate patch of the southern Indian Ocean, said Angus Houston, the head of a joint agency coordinating the search. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)

Desperate hunt is on for Flight 370 ‘black boxes’

Nick Perry · April 5, 2014 3:02 am

Search agency says 2 ships to start black box hunt

Search agency says 2 ships to start black box hunt

Nick Perry · April 4, 2014 5:42 am

In this , Tuesday, April 1, 2014 photo made available Thursday, April 3, 2014, a crewman on a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3 Orion Rescue Flight 795 searches for debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, in southern Indian Ocean, 1,500 kilometers northwest of Perth, Australia. The focus of the search has changed repeatedly in the nearly four weeks since the air traffic controllers lost contact with the Boeing 777 between Malaysia and Vietnam over the South China Sea. It began in the South China Sea, then shifted toward the Malacca Strait to the west, where Malaysian officials eventually confirmed that military radar had detected the plane. (AP Photo/AAP Image, Kim Christian, POOL)

MH370: What do we know? What will we ever know?

Todd Pitman · April 3, 2014 2:17 pm

A Chinese relative of passengers on board the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is comforted by a monk as she breaks into tears following prayers at a Buddhist temple in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, Monday March 31, 2014. Relatives from China are in the country to seek answers of what happened to their loved one on board flight MH370. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Australia to deploy flying air traffic controller

ROB GRIFFITHROD McGUIRK · April 1, 2014 4:31 am

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott meets members of Malaysia's Air Force currently based at RAAF Base Pearce in Bullsbrook, near Perth, Australia, Monday, March 31, 2014. Abbott said the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is "an extraordinarily difficult exercise" but that it will go on as long as possible. Abbott said Monday that although no debris has been found in the southern Indian Ocean that can be linked to the plane missing for more than three weeks, the searchers are "well, well short" of any point where they would scale the hunt back. (AP Photo/Jason Reed, Pool)

Aircraft and ships involved in Malaysia jet search

The Associated Press · March 31, 2014 10:42 am