Experts, relatives ask: Where’s the proof that MH370 fell into ocean?

(CNN) — One thing’s missing from the official version of what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, say some experts and family members: hard evidence.

Flight 370: Storm of emotions over lives ‘lost’ as storm at sea delays search

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (CNN) — For families whose loved ones were aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, the past day has been full of news they were dreading.

What could wreckage tell us about Flight 370’s fate?

(CNN) — With the search for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 now concentrated in the southern Indian Ocean, any debris found could give investigators some clues as to what happened to the jetliner.

The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

About 40 minutes after taking off from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Saturday, March 8, a Boeing 777-200ER jetliner with 239 people on board went missing while flying to Beijing. Below is a brief summary of what we know about the search for flight 370. Full coverage »

‘They have told us all lives are lost,’ says relative of Malaysia Airlines passenger

(CNN) — Family members of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 passengers and crew heard the news they feared most Monday: “All lives are lost.”

Grief, anger and more questions after Malaysia declares Flight 370 crashed

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — It was the unwelcome, anguishing news that families of the missing had dreaded, and when they heard it from Malaysia’s prime minister Monday night there were shrieks and intense heartbreak: The missing Malaysian Airlines flight whose fate was a mystery that consumed the world had crashed into a remote corner of the Indian Ocean.

Jet Fell Into Ocean With All Lost, Premier Says

PEARCE AIR FORCE BASE, Australia — A British satellite company has solved one crucial aspect of the mystery surrounding the Malaysia Airlines flight that disappeared on March 8, using a complex mathematical process to determine that it ended its journey in the middle of the southern Indian Ocean.

Flight 370: Whole world listens for slowly fading pings

Washington (CNN) — Somewhere in the vast Indian Ocean, a tiny aluminum cylinder may be emitting a steady ping.

‘They have told us all lives are lost,’ says relative of Malaysia Airlines passenger

(CNN) — Family members of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 passengers and crew heard the news they feared most Monday: “All lives are lost.”

U.S. officials: Indications found of files deleted closer to Malaysian Airline flight

(CNN) — American investigators reviewing a hard drive belonging to the captain of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 have found that there were deletions of information even closer to the final flight than first indicated by Malaysian officials, U.S. law enforcement officials tell CNN.

Mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 could spur air safety changes

(CNN) — Cameras in the cockpit. Real-time streaming of communications and flight information. Increased capacity flight data and voice recorders. Transponders that detach on impact and float.

Plane search hampered by ocean garbage problem

(CNN) — Another debris field, another new and so-far futile focus in the search for Flight MH370.

Search resumes for possible debris from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

Perth, Australia (CNN) — The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 resumed Friday in the southern Indian Ocean with long-range reconnaissance aircraft looking for possible debris from the jetliner in one of the most remote locations on Earth.

If this is the debris of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, what happens next?

After 13 days of searching amid fears that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 may never be found, investigators said Thursday that satellites have beamed down a ray of hope — images of a debris field floating in the southern Indian Ocean that may show wreckage of the jet.

Aviation Lawyer on Help for MH370 Families

Some initial payments are being made on policies covering Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, even as the search for the missing flight continues. Steve Marks, who has represented victims of major plane crashes for more than 25 years, joins the News Hub.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Australia says possible objects in Indian Ocean

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (CNN) — Authorities have spotted two objects in the Indian Ocean that are possibly related to the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Thursday.

Australia: Malaysia Airlines Plane Search Finds Objects Possibly Related To Missing Jet

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Search planes flew out of Australia on Friday to scour rough seas in one of the remotest places on Earth for objects that may be from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: No Confirmed Debris Found

CANBERRA, Australia—Search teams began scouring a remote section of the Indian Ocean for possible debris from Malaysia Airlines 3786.KU -2.08% Flight 370 for a second day, after satellite images pointed to new potential clues on the missing jet.

What we know about Malaysia Airlines flight 370

A massive international effort is underway in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370. There were 239 people (12 crew members and 227 passengers) on the Boeing 777. The jet lost contact about 40 minutes into a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8. Malaysian officials, authorities from 26 other nations, and experts from around the world are trying to figure out what happened to the jetliner.

Frustration of relatives of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 passengers boils over

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (CNN) — A woman wailed as security guards dragged her out of the briefing room used to provide updates on missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

Malaysia Airlines Chief Corrects Timeline of Missing Flight 370

Airline CEO’s statement contradicts Malaysia’s assertion that someone spoke from the plane after communications system was disabled

Flying low? Burning object? Ground witnesses claim they saw Flight 370

(CNN) — How could a commercial airliner disappear without a sign, you ask?

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: How do passenger jets change flight paths?

(CNN) — It appears Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was programmed to steer off course before the pilots signed off with air traffic control, and that the change of direction may have been transmitted to controllers.

FBI Examining Malaysia Airlines Pilot’s Flight Simulator

The FBI is examining the homemade flight simulator that belonged to the captain of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight and a key question will be trying to determine what the captain deleted and whether it’s key to the investigation.

Organized Terrorism Likely Didn’t Cause Malaysia Airlines MH370 Disappearance

The missing Malaysian Boeing BA +0.69% 777 did not disappear at the hands of organized terrorists, says Adam Dolnik, a professor of counterterrorism at the University of Wollongong in Australia.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Where the investigation stands now

Malaysian authorities have not ruled out any possible explanation for what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, but have said the evidence so far suggests it was deliberately turned back across Malaysia to the Strait of Malacca, with its communications systems disabled. They are unsure what happened next.

Two-week search for Malaysian jet finds only frustration and suspicion

(Reuters) – Two weeks after a Malaysia Airlines airliner went missing with 239 people on board, officials are bracing for the “long haul” as searches by more than two dozen countries turn up little but frustration and fresh questions.

(CNN) 2 weeks in, no sign of Malaysian airliner — intense search off Australia turns up zero

That’s how long it’s been since 227 passengers and 12 crew members boarded Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, destined for Beijing. A routine trip, it seemed, to catch up relatives in time for the weekend, start on a work assignment or just get away.

Search For Missing Malaysia Airlines Plane Expands, But Shows Little Progress

KUALA LUMPUR/BEIJING, March 18 (Reuters) – China deployed 21 satellites to scour its territory for a missing Malaysian jetliner, while Australia said it had drastically narrowed its sector of the search area but was still looking in an expanse of ocean the size of Spain and Portugal.

Timing of Report by Flight’s Pilot Focuses Inquiry

SEPANG, Malaysia — A signaling system was disabled on the missing Malaysia Airlines jet before a pilot spoke to air traffic control without mentioning any trouble, a senior Malaysian official said Sunday, reinforcing theories that one or both of the pilots may have been involved in diverting the plane and adding urgency to the investigation of their pasts and possible motivations.

So. Florida Aviation Expert Doubts Hijacking Theory

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – More than a week after Malaysian Airliner 370 vanished with 239 people onboard, Malaysia’s Prime Minister said someone in the cockpit deliberately turned off the plane’s communication systems, one after the other, then flew the plane off-course.

6 Theories on What Happened to Malaysia Flight 370

Theories about what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 are rampant, though many are cobbled together with dubious clues or void of facts altogether. In the absence of concrete information on where the plane is, officials haven’t ruled out any possible scenarios.

Malaysia Appeals to 25 Countries in Flight 370 Search

As the search for a Boeing (BA) aircraft carrying 239 people risks becoming the longest hunt in modern civil aviation, Malaysia broadened its appeal for international help while the area being combed through grows larger every day.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Investigators focus on pilots

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – When someone at the controls calmly said the last words heard from the missing Malaysian jetliner, one of the Boeing 777’s communications systems had already been disabled, authorities said Sunday, adding to suspicions that one or both of the pilots were involved in disappearance of the flight.

Malaysia Airlines pilots caught on camera before mysterious disappearance (VIDEO)

The pilots of a missing Malaysian jet breezed through a security check-point shortly before they disappeared with a plane full of people, new video shows.

Key moments emerge in tracking of missing Malaysia Airlines plane

(CNN) — New details provide a clearer chronology about what might have happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 between its takeoff and its last known spotting seven hours later.

India puts search on hold for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370

India on Sunday put on hold its search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, at the request of the government in Kuala Lumpur, which wants to reassess the week-old hunt for the Boeing 777 that is now suspected of being hijacked.

Malaysian PM says lost airliner was diverted deliberately

(Reuters) – A missing Malaysian airliner appears to have been deliberately steered off course after someone on board shut down its communications, Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Saturday.

As Air France crash showed, recovery can be long, daunting

When an Air France jetliner disappeared from radar and plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009, a daunting search-and-rescue operation ensued.

Malaysia Flight 370: Amid a sea of questions, 28 of the most compelling

(CNN) — Questions about the fate of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared a week ago over Southeast Asia, continued Friday to hang in the air. Here is what we know — and don’t know — from hard data to conspiracy theories.

Satellite looking into missing Malaysia flight detects ‘suspected crash area’

(CNN) — A Chinese satellite probing the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 “observed a suspected crash area at sea,” a Chinese government agency said — a potentially pivotal lead into what thus far has been a frustrating, fruitless search.

Malaysia Airlines flight recorder beacons send signals for 30 days before batteries die

Search teams hunting for the Malaysia Airlines jetliner believed to have plunged into the ocean have about 30 days to find the cockpit recorders before the tracking signals they emit go dead.

US lawyer slams Malaysia for misleading information on flight MH370

An American lawyer has criticised Malaysia for fuelling what he describes as misleading speculation over the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Steve Marks, a lawyer with American firm Podhurst Orseck, told The Guardian he was suspicious of information being released by Malaysian authorities. Podhurst Orseck represented…

As Air France crash showed, recovery can be long, daunting

When an Air France jetliner disappeared from radar and plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009, a daunting search-and-rescue operation ensued.

MAS plane disappearance bears marks of ‘catastrophic failure’, says aviation lawyer

An aviation lawyer who has worked on cases with problems similar to the Malaysia Airlines (MAS) plane which went missing yesterday said the lack of warnings about a problem aboard the flight suggests a catastrophic failure during flight.

Timeline of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

(CNN) — Here is a timeline of events leading up to and including the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. All times are local times.

Malaysia Airlines Jet Missing: Military Says Plane Changed Course

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The Malaysian military has radar data showing the missing Boeing 777 jetliner changed course and made it to the Malacca Strait, hundreds of kilometers (miles) from the last position recorded by civilian authorities, according to a senior military official.

Malaysian authorities taken to task by aviation experts for fuelling speculation

Aviation experts have criticised the way Malaysian authorities have fuelled what is likely to be misleading speculation about what caused flight MH370 to go missing.

Probe Is Profiling Passengers, Exploring Many Possibilities

KUALA LUMPUR—Malaysian police said they were investigating whether a hijacking or sabotage caused an airliner to vanish midair, and were compiling psychological and personal profiles of passengers and crew.

Malaysia Jet Changed Course at Time of Disappearance, Officials Say

SEPANG, Malaysia — The Malaysian authorities now believe that a jetliner missing since Saturday may have radically changed course around the time that it stopped communicating with ground controllers. But there were conflicting accounts of the course change and what may have happened afterward, adding to the air of confusion and disarray surrounding the investigation and search operation.

Malaysia Airlines MH370: Plane ‘changed course’

Military radar suggests the missing Malaysia Airlines plane turned west, away from its planned route, before vanishing, Malaysia’s air force says.

Mystery Malaysia flight may have been hundreds of miles off course

(CNN) — Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was hundreds of miles off course, traveling in the opposite direction from its original destination and had stopped sending identifying transponder codes before it disappeared, a senior Malaysian Air Force official told CNN Tuesday.

Malaysia military tracked missing plane to west coast: source

(Reuters) – Malaysia’s military believes a jetliner missing for almost four days turned and flew hundreds of kilometers to the west after it last made contact with civilian air traffic control off the country’s east coast, a senior officer told Reuters on Tuesday.

Iranian traveling on stolen passport was seeking asylum

Steve Marks, a Miami aviation lawyer who represented families in two instances in which an airliner plummeted from cruising altitude, pointed to a mechanical failure as the most likely cause of the Malaysia tragedy.

“There can be a mechanical problem that can occur at altitude, where the pilots are unable to report the failure and the aircraft is lost on radar,” he said.

Nonetheless, he said, the failure of all communications from the Malaysia Air flight made it “the most mysterious” crash in his recollection.

‘There are no answers’: Days later, no sign of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

(CNN) — What made Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 go off the grid? Where is it now? And could two stolen passports be the key to unraveling what happened?

Race Against Time in Search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

With few clues, searchers are racing time, wind, and the current as they search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared from radar early Saturday morning between Kuala Lampur and Vietnam with 239 people on board.

Stolen Passports Probed In Malaysian Plane Mystery

PATTAYA, Thailand (AP) — Authorities questioned travel agents Monday at a beach resort in Thailand about two men who boarded the vanished Malaysia Airlines plane with stolen passports, part of a growing international investigation into what they were doing on the flight.

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Ten countries scour sea for Malaysia jet lost in ‘unprecedented mystery’

(Reuters) – T he disappearance of a Malaysian airliner about an hour into a flight to Beijing is an “unprecedented mystery”, the civil aviation chief said on Monday, as a massive air and sea search now in its third day failed to find any trace of the plane or 239 people on board.

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China urges Malaysia to intensify search for flight MH370

China has urged Malaysia to “step up its efforts” in the search for the Malaysia Airlines passenger plane that disappeared on Saturday.

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Vast waters hide clues in hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines flight

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (CNN) — The mysteries surrounding the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, and the true identities of some of its passengers, are as deep as the southeast Asian waters where multinational search teams are searching for the jet.

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‘We have to find the aircraft’: Days later, no sign of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

(CNN) — With lead after lead failing to pan out, search and rescue officials said Monday they will expand the search area for the Malaysia Airlines aircraft that vanished three days ago.

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Malaysia Airlines crash: Navy ships and helicopters search

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 mystery: Jet’s door may have been found, officials say

Vietnamese aircraft spotted what they suspected was one of the doors belonging to the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 on Sunday, as troubling questions emerged about how two passengers managed to board the Boeing 777 using stolen passports.

Passport Theft Adds to Mystery of Missing Malaysia Airlines Jet

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Investigators trying to find out what happened to a Malaysia Airlines jet that disappeared en route to Beijing on Saturday morning were examining the usual causes of plane crashes: mechanical failure, pilot error, bad weather. But the discovery that two of the passengers were carrying stolen passports also raised the unsettling possibility of foul play.

Missing Malaysia plane: What we know

00:41, 8 March: Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 departed from Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Saturday, 8 March (16:41 GMT, 7 March), and was due to arrive in Beijing at 06:30 (22:30 GMT).

There is precedent for a jetliner going missing

(CNN) — How can a Boeing 777-200ER passenger jet go missing for more than a day? Turns out, it’s not so easy.

That’s not just because the state-of-the-art jetliner has a wingspan of nearly 200 feet and a length of more than 209 feet. It’s also because it’s bristling with communications gear, including radios, automatic beacons, GPS and computer communications systems, according to CNN aviation correspondent Richard Quest.

Clues suggest ‘catastrophic failure’ on Malaysia flight

An aviation lawyer who worked on cases with problems similar to the Malaysia Airlines disaster said Saturday the lack of warnings about a problem aboard the aircraft suggest a catastrophic failure while flying at altitude.

Steve Marks, a partner at Podhurst Orseck law firm in Miami, represented relatives of victims in the SilkAir crash in Asia in December 1997 and the Air France crash in the Atlantic in June 2009. He said finding the wreckage — if the Malaysia plane did crash — and identifying a cause are complicated and difficult.

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MH370 Flight Incident

Sepang, 9 March 2014: Malaysia Airlines humbly asks all Malaysians and people around the world to pray for flight MH370.

It has been more than 24 hours since we last heard from MH370 at 1.30 am. The search and rescue team is yet to determine the whereabouts of the Boeing 777-200 aircraft.

An international search and rescue mission from Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam was mobilized this morning. At this stage, they have failed to find evidence of any wreckage. The sea mission will continue overnight while the air mission will recommence at daylight.

We are dispatching all information as and when we receive it. The situation in Beijing is also being monitored closely. As many families of passengers are in China, we have deployed our “Go Team” to Beijing with a team of caregivers and volunteers to assist the family members of the passengers.

Immediate families of passengers are advised to gather at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Travel arrangements and expenses will be borne by Malaysia Airlines. Once, the whereabouts of the aircraft is determined, Malaysia Airlines will fly members of the family to the location.

Our sole priority now is to provide all assistance to the families of the passengers and our staff. We are also working closely with the concerned authorities in the search and rescue operation

The families may contact +603 7884 1234.

For media queries, kindly contact +603 8777 5698/ +603 8787 1276.

There will be a press conference at Sama Sama Hotel at 9.00 am tomorrow by DCA.

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Malaysian plane still missing; questions over false IDs

A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew went missing off the Vietnamese coast on Saturday and was presumed to have crashed.

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Oil Slick Is Sign Malaysia Airlines Jet Crashed Into Sea

A 12-mile-long streak of oil across the surface waters of the Gulf of Thailand was an early clue to the mysterious disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jet with 239 aboard that vanished in predawn darkness Saturday morning during a flight from Kuala Lumpur that was supposed to end in Beijing.

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Malaysia Airlines flight ‘presumed crashed’

Search by air stopped until morning, while sea mission to find plane gone missing on its way to Beijing continues.

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What Happened To Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370?

The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight that disappeared Saturday while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing still has not produced results, but it is all but certain at this point that flight MH370 has crashed. The Boeing 777 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew lost contact with air traffic control between Malaysia and Vietnam over the South China Sea early Saturday local time, and has not been seen or heard from since.

Terrorism possible in missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370; military radar indicates jet may have turned around

Authorities hunting a lost Malaysia Airlines jetliner refused to rule out terrorism Saturday in the flight’s sudden and stunning disappearance over Southeast Asia.

Malaysia Airlines flight to Beijing vanishes

South-east Asian states have joined forces to search waters between Malaysia and Vietnam after a Malaysia Airlines plane vanished on a flight to Beijing, with 239 people on board.

Distraught relatives await news of missing Malaysia Airlines plane

A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew went missing over the South China Sea on Saturday, presumed crashed, as ships from countries closest to its flight path scoured a large search area for any wreckage.

Signs of crash after jet carrying 239 vanishes

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Vietnamese air force planes on Saturday spotted two large oil slicks close to where a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 went missing earlier in the day, the first sign that the aircraft carrying 239 people had crashed.

No sign of Malaysia Airline wreckage; questions over stolen passports

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (CNN) — There were few answers Sunday about the fate of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a day after contact was lost with the commercial jetliner en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

UPDATED: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Has Likely Crashed But Where?

Malaysia Airlines flight 370, a Boeing 777-200ER (airplane reg: 9M-MRO) has most likely crashed 153 miles off of Vietnam’s Tho Chu island. The flight was carrying a total number of 239 passengers and crew – comprising 227 passengers (including 2 infants) and 12 crew members. The passengers were of 13 different nationalities.

Malaysia Airlines missing jet: Searchers spot oil slicks.

Vietnamese air force planes on Saturday spotted two large oil slicks in the area where a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 vanished earlier in the day, the first sign that the aircraft carrying 239 people on board had crashed.

Vietnamese authorities say they detected plane’s last signal

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Search and rescue crews across Southeast Asia scrambled on Saturday to find a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that disappeared from air traffic control screens over waters between Malaysia and Vietnam early that morning, leaving the fates of the 239 people aboard in doubt.

Malaysia Airlines Plane, Flight MH370, Goes Missing

A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 239 people lost contact with air traffic control early Saturday morning (local time). Flight MH370 is a B777-200 aircraft heading to Beijing, China from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Malaysia Airlines 777 Disappears Over South China Sea, Large Oil Slicks A Sign The Jet Crashed

The search for a missing Malaysia Airlines flight, carrying 239 people, continued on Saturday afternoon after it went missing earlier somewhere in the South China Sea between Malaysia and Vietnam.