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More Focus on Flight Tracking a Year After Flight 370 Goes Missing

At 656,000 pounds fully loaded and the length of six school buses, the Boeing 777-200ER is hard to miss. Yet nearly one year ago, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished, taking the lives of 239 passengers and crew in one of …

Officials Meet at Global Safety Conference to Discuss Aviation Calamities

Government and aviation industry officials from dozens of countries are meeting in Montreal this week to try to find consensus on how to keep from losing airliners like the one that vanished without a trace in Asia and another shot …

Authorities Plan Salvage Operation for Missing Malaysian Jet

Despite no firm clue to the whereabouts of a Malaysian airliner being discovered since it disappeared 10 months ago far off the Australian coast, authorities on Thursday invited expressions of interest from salvage operators in case the wreck is found. …

Missing Jet Ocean Floor Search Moves South

A deep-sea search for the missing Flight 370 will move as much as about 800 kilometers (500 miles) further south after new analysis of satellite data showed the plane may have turned earlier than previously thought. The Malaysia Airlines plane, …

Jet-Tracking Debate Persists Months After Malaysian Airline Loss

New generations of satellite networks and airborne technology are making the prospect of tracking airline flights around the globe a near-term reality. There’s just one issue: This equipment wouldn’t have prevented a plane like Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 from disappearing …

Malaysia Airlines Begins Insurance Payments

Malaysia Airlines has begun giving out $50,000 in advance insurance payments to families of people aboard missing Flight 370, but many Chinese relatives have indicated they’ll reject it. The jet is thought to have crashed in the Indian Ocean on …

Missing Malaysia Jet Satellite Data Released

The Malaysian government on Tuesday released 45 pages of raw satellite data it used to determine that the missing jetliner crashed into the southern Indian Ocean, responding to demands for greater transparency by relatives of some of the 239 people …

Malaysia Airlines Lawsuits Unlikely to be Heard in U.S.

Since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing, some lawyers have claimed they can get several millions of dollars in damages for each lost passenger by taking the cases to the United States. But past lawsuits show U.S. federal courts are …

Global Airline Association Recommends Livestreaming Flight Data

The aviation industry should consider technology allowing more live-streaming of flight data following the disappearance of a Malaysian jetliner, but cost and practicalities remain major problems, the head of the global airlines’ body said on Tuesday. The loss of Malaysia …

Time Running Out as Missing Plane’s ‘Black Box’ Pings Continue

Equipment inside two nearly indestructible boxes aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines plane recorded critical information that would help investigators reconstruct what went wrong. The flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder have beacons that are sending out “pings” which searchers …