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Lack of Tracking Means Planes Could Still Vanish Into Thin Air Like MH370

The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 prompted a slew of safety proposals meant to prevent another jetliner from inexplicably vanishing. Yet four years later, that possibility remains. That’s because international requirements for new planes to broadcast their locations every …

Chinese Ship Equipped With Advanced Sonar Joins Search for Flight 370

A Chinese ship equipped with advanced sonar equipment will soon join the search for the Malaysian airliner believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean almost two years ago, an official said on Friday. The Dong Hai Jiu 101 …

Malaysia Declares Flight 370 Crash an Accident to Clear Compensation

Malaysia’s government formally declared still-missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 an accident on Thursday and said all those on board were presumed dead, paving the way for compensation claims but angering victims’ families still waiting for evidence of the plane’s fate. …

New Plan Wanted for Missing Malaysia Plane Jet Search

Their hopes raised and dashed, relatives of passengers on a missing Malaysia Airlines plane want a new plan to find it after the search was suspended following a new setback. The 84-year-old mother of Australian passenger Rod Burrows no longer …

Search for Missing Jet Centered on Large, Deep Seabed

Two miles under the sea where satellites and planes are looking for debris from the missing Malaysian jet, the ocean floor is cold, dark, covered in a squishy muck of dead plankton and – in a potential break for the …