Lost Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370
Investigators around
the world are still trying solve the deepening mystery of the vanishing
of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. The plane with 239 people on board
disappeared last Saturday an hour after leaving Kuala Lumpur for
Beijing. The massive search area has now expanded to the Indian Ocean.
Speculation and many unanswered questions remain as distressed families
and the world wait for a definite outcome. --Leanne Burden Seidel (35 photos total)
A
crew member from the Royal Malaysian Air Force looks through the window
of a Malaysian Air Force CN235 aircraft during a Search and Rescue
(SAR) operation to find the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, in
the Straits of Malacca March 13. (Samsul Said/Reuters)
Indonesian
Air Force officials at Medan city military base plot the Indonesian
military search operation for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight
MH370 on March 12, in the area of Malacca Strait, a sea passageway
between Indonesia (seen left of the map) and Malaysia (seen right on the
map). Malaysia faced a storm of criticism on March 12 over
contradictions and information gaps in the hunt for a missing airliner
with 239 people on board, as the search zone dramatically veered far
from the intended flight path. (Atara/AFP/Getty Images) #
Ignatius
Ong, a member of the Malaysia Airlines (MAS) crisis management team,
reacts as he prepares to answer a question at a press conference in
Beijing on March 9. Malaysia launched a terror probe into the
disappearance the day before of the MAS passenger jet, carrying 239
people from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, investigating suspect passengers
who boarded with stolen passports, as relatives begged for news of their
loved ones. (Wang Zhao/AFP/Getty Images) #
A
relative (woman in white) of a passenger onboard Malaysia Airlines
flight MH370 cries as she talks on her mobile phone at the Beijing
Capital International Airport March 8. The Malaysia Airlines flight
carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew lost contact with air traffic
controllers early on Saturday en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, the
airline said in a statement. Flight MH 370, operating a Boeing B777-200
aircraft departed Kuala Lumpur at 12.21 a.m. (1621 GMT Friday) and had
been expected to land in the Chinese capital at 6.30 a.m. (2230 GMT) the
same day. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters) #
Photographs
showing one of the passengers of the missing Malaysian Airlines
aircraft Chandrika Sharma, left, her husband Narendran and daughter
Meghna, are displayed during a press conference in Chennai, India, March
12. Narendran criticized the Indian government for its silence and said
no government official has contacted them on the incident yet,
according to a local news agency. Malaysia has asked for India's
assistance in searching for the missing Boeing 777 jetliner to widen the
search to an area near the Andaman Sea. (Arun Sankar K/Associated
Press) #
Family
members comfort Chrisman Siregar, left, and his wife Herlina Panjaitan,
the parents of Firman Siregar, one of the Indonesian citizens
registered on the manifest to Malaysia Airlines jetliner flight MH370 at
their residence in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, March 9. (Binsar
Bakkara/Associated Press) #
Muslim
men offer prayers at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport for the
missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner MH370, March 13, in Sepang, Malaysia.
Planes sent Thursday to check the spot where Chinese satellite images
showed possible debris from the missing Malaysian jetliner found
nothing, Malaysia's civil aviation chief said, deflating the latest
lead. (Wong Maye-E/Associated Press) #
Over
a dozen microphones are propped on a table as Malaysian police chief
Khalid Abu Bakar answers questions from members of the media, raising
their hands waiting their turn as seen in the shadows cast on stage
during a press conference, March 11, in Sepang, Malaysia. (Wong
Maye-E/Associated Press) #
A
general view from an AN-26 aircraft from the Vietnamese airforce,
during a mission to find the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370,
shows Tho Chu island March 11. The massive search has drawn in military
aircraft, coastguard and civilian vessels from 10 nations, but failed to
turn up any trace of the Boeing 777-200ER that vanished about an hour
into a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing early on Saturday.
(Kham/Reuters) #
A
man watches a large screen showing different flights at the departure
hall of Kuala Lumpur International Airport March 13. Search planes found
no sign on of the missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft, Flight MH370, in
an area where satellite images had shown debris, taking the as-yet
fruitless hunt. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters) #
Vietnamese
Air Force Col. Pham Minh Tuan uses binoculars on board a flying
aircraft during a mission to search for the missing Malaysia Airlines
flight MH370 in the Gulf of Thailand over the location where Chinese
satellite images showed possible debris from the missing Malaysian
jetliner, March 13. (Associated Press) #
A
crew member of a Royal Malaysian Air Force CN-235 aircraft rests after
long hours working in a search and rescue operation for the missing
Malaysia Airlines plane over the Straits of Malacca, March 13. Planes
sent Thursday to check the spot where Chinese satellite images showed
possible debris from the missing Malaysian jetliner found nothing. (Lai
Seng Sin/Associated Press) #
A
man wearing a mask, who claimed to be a relative of a passenger from
the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, speaks to the media outside
the lounge in Beijing on March 14. Malaysia confirmed on March 14 that
the search for a missing Malaysia Airlines plane had been expanded into
the Indian Ocean, but declined to comment on US reports that the jet had
flown for hours after going missing. (Wang Zhao/AFP/Getty Images) #
A
Royal Malaysian Air Force Navigator captain Izam Fareq Hassan (R) talks
with his team members onboard a Malaysian Air Force CN235 aircraft
during a search and rescue (SAR) operation to find the missing Malaysia
Airlines flight MH370 plane over the Strait of Malacca on March 14.
(Mohd Rasfan/AFP/Getty Images) #
A
well-wisher hangs up messages for the passengers of the missing
Malaysian Airline plane at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia,
March 14. (Mak Remissa/EPA) #
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