"We have now had a number of very credible leads, and there is increasing hope -- no more than hope, no more than hope -- that we might be on the road to discovering what did happen" To Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott says.
Newly released Chinese satellite images show debris 74 feet long and 43 feet wide, some 1,500 miles off the coast of Perth, officials said. Spurred by those images, NASA said Saturday that it plans to point some of its satellites at the search area.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority said searchers will take the Chinese information into consideration as they plot Sunday's search. Eight planes - more than on any other day -- will search the Indian Ocean, said Andrea Hayward-Maher, spokeswoman for the maritime safety authority. Aircraft from the United States, New Zealand, Australia and China will be flying. Ref. CNN
Sonar echoes, new imagery in search for plane
France has provided new satellite data showing possible debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, as searchers combing a remote part of the southern Indian Ocean tried without success to locate a pallet that could be a key clue in solving one of the world's biggest aviation mysteries. Ref. Source 6
Australian searchers have located two objects in the southern Indian Ocean during the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Malaysia's acting transportation minister said today. One of the objects is circular and the other is rectangular, he said at a news briefing. Ref. CNN
Flight MH370 families told to assume "None on board survived"
Malaysian Airlines has sent a text message to families of passengers of Flight MH370 telling them to assume that "None on board survived" And that the plane went down in the southern Indian Ocean. Meanwhile, the Malaysian prime minister announced he will make a statement at 10 a.m. ET. Ref. USAToday
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 likely crashed in the Indian Ocean, Malaysia's Prime Minister said today.
Prime Minister Najib Razak said British investigators' conclusion that the plane's flight ended in the southern Indian Ocean was based on new analysis of Inmarsat satellite data.
The mystery of what happened to 227 passengers and 12 crew members had set off a frenzy of speculation and conspiracy-theory hatching.
But the Prime Minister said the Boeing 777's last known position was far from any landing area. Ref. CNN
Race to find black boxes in MH370 search
Malaysia says it has narrowed the search for downed jetliner MH370 to an area the size of Texas and Oklahoma in the southern Indian Ocean, while Australia says improved weather would allow the hunt for possible debris from the plane to resume. Ref. Source 4