Saturday, March 29, 2014

PHOTOS: Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

March 29,2014
 
 
 
 
It's been more than two weeks since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared from radar over the South China Sea. In that time, a series of false leads have plagued the search for missing airliner and its 239 passengers and crew. Australian, Chinese, French and Thai all spotted objects in satellite imagery and data in a search area in the far southern stretches of the Indian Ocean off the coast of western Australia.
Now, Australian officials say all those objects weren't from the missing plane after all. New analysis of the plane's limited data suggests that the plane was traveling faster than previously thought, and as such, may have terminated further north than previously thought. As a result, international search teams are now combing a new area, 80 percent smaller than the last, more than 600 miles northeast of the old area.
On Saturday, a Chinese plane spotted multiple objects floating in the new search area, some bearing the colors of the missing plane, but ships have not yet recovered and confirmed the objects as debris from the Boeing 777.
But time is running out. With each day that passes, the battery life on the plane's black box disappears, and with it, the possibility for recovering critical data that may explain what happened in the flight's final hours.

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