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MH370: Oil rig worker who claimed to have seen a burning plane is sacked
New Zealand daily, the Sunday Star Times, has reported that Mike McKay, the New Zealander who claimed to have sighted a burning aircraft going down off the Vietnamese coast in March, has been sacked from his job following that claim.
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Airlines want tracking technology to prevent another MH370
Making sure another plane is never "lost" again is the immediate priority for the airline industry, according to Tony Tyler CEO of the International Air Transport Association (IATA). The group has set up a taskforce comprised of airlines, pilots, flight safety organizations and flight tracking and navigation service providers to try and ensure a mystery like flight MH370 is not repeated.
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Navy official: Pings not thought to be from Flight 370's black boxes
The four acoustic pings at the center of the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 for the past seven weeks are no longer believed to have come from the plane's black boxes, a U.S. Navy official told CNN. The acknowledgment came Wednesday as searchers wrapped up the first phase of their effort, having scanned 329 square miles of southern Indian Ocean floor without finding any wreckage from the Boeing 777-200.
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How a new seafloor map could aid in the search for Malaysian Airlines Flight 370
Using satellite data, a duo of researchers developed a topographic map of the seafloor of the Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 search area.
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Data Suggests Missing Plane Used Up Fuel and Crashed in Indian Ocean
Raw satellite transmission data from the vanished Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, released on Tuesday by the Malaysian government, provided further evidence that the plane crashed into the Indian Ocean after flying south and running out of fuel.
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Malaysia defends military inaction on MH370 radar
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Malaysia's defense minister on Monday defended his military's failure to scramble a fighter jet to follow a Malaysian airliner when it veered off course and vanished two months ago, saying it wasn't seen as a hostile object...
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Inmarsat offers free airline tracking
UK satellite operator Inmarsat is to offer a free, basic tracking service to all the world's passenger airliners. The offer follows the case of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared without trace on 8 March. It was very brief electronic "pings" from Inmarsat equipment on the lost plane that prompted investigators to look for wreckage in the Indian Ocean.
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MH370: Search for plane enters new, 'more difficult' $60 million phase
More than 300 flights. Over 3,000 hours in the air. A staggering 4.6 million square kilometers of ocean. The numbers speak to the breadth of the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. The results speak to the fruitlessness of it. The plane, carrying 239 people, disappeared on March 8. And despite an expansive search involving 26 countries, officials have nothing to show for it. So authorities are moving on to the next phase of the search - one that will be even more challenging.
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Malaysia Flight MH370: 11 Terrorists Arrested on Suspicion of Involvement in Disappearance of Flight
The suspected terrorists, who reportedly have links to Al Qaeda, were arrested in Kuala Lumpur.
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The Man Who Thinks He Has Solved the MH370 Mystery
Anyone familiar with modern Malaysia—and hey, that should include almost everybody in this era of MH370 coverage—knows the name "Dr. Mahathir." For more than two decades, Mahathir Mohamad, originally trained as a medical doctor, was prime minister of Malaysia. To put it in perspective for Americans, this was a span that included all of Ronald Reagan's time in office, plus that of the first George Bush, plus all of Bill Clinton's, plus much of George W. Bush's first term.
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Malaysian prime minister admits lost plane WAS tracked by military radar
The Malaysian prime minister has finally confirmed reports that the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was tracked by military radar, as he prepared to host US President Barack Obama in Kuala Lumpur seven weeks after the plane disappeared.
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Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 update: Possible debris found on western Australia beach
Australian officials have confirmed that debris — potentially from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 — was found washed up on a western Australia beach. The debris was discovered around 198.8 miles from Perth, and roughly 1,000 miles away from the center of the Indian Ocean search zone. Australian police have secured the debris, and authorities from both Australia and Malaysia are examining photographs.
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Australia: Signals detected consistent with aircraft black boxes
A British ship equipped to locate a jet's black boxes arrived in the area where a Chinese patrol ship detected a signal that could have come from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
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Possible black box 'pings' spur on search for missing MH370 airliner
Australia announces one of its vessels picked up possible underwater signal, adding to two detections by Chinese ship.
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Chinese search vessel discovers pulse signal in Indian Ocean
Chinese search vessel discovers pulse signal in Indian Ocean---Chinese patrol ship Haixun 01, searching for the missing Malaysian passenger jet MH370, detected a pulse signal with a frequency of 37.5kHz per second in southern Indian Ocean waters Saturday.
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The sad state of Ocean garbage pollution
The sad corollary of the sad search for Malayasian Flight 370 is all the trash that the radar images have found in the southern ocean of our planet. One imagines admirals, heads bent, being embarrassed to answer the question, “What is that thing, sir?” “Packaging, son, for the things that make our global economy purr.”
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MH370: cockpit transcript released
Malaysia says final words to air traffic control were 'Goodnight, Malaysian Three Seven Zero', contradicting an earlier version
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MH370: Hopes dashed as orange objects turn out to be fishing equipment
Potential leads on the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 keep coming. So do the setbacks and frustrations. Monday's search ended without finding anything significant, Australian officials said. Four orange objects spotted by search aircraft and earlier described as promising turned out be nothing more than old fishing gear, they said.
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Thai satellite detects 300 floating objects near search area for MH370
A Thai satellite has detected 300 floating objects in the Indian Ocean, about 200 kilometres from the international search area for the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370. Mr Anond Snidvongs, executive director of Geo Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency, said that Thaichote satellite or Thailand Earth Observation Satellite, has recorded the objects, ranging from two to 15 metres, about 200 kilometres south-west of where the ill-fated flight is thought to have come down.
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MH370: How Do Insurers Put a Price on Life?
On Monday, when Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 “ended in the southern Indian Ocean,” it wasn’t simply a concession to the reality of the situation. It was a signal to the carrier’s insurance companies, and to lawyers around the world.
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