Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 2:52 AM
Malaysia received new satellite images that showed 122 potential objects in one area of the ocean, an official says.
Some appeared bright, possibly indicating solid material.
"This is another new lead that will help direct the search operation," said the Malaysian acting minister of transportation.
Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 9:50 PM
Malaysia Airlines said Tuesday it has offered family members $5,000 for each passenger aboard the ill-fated Flight 370 and was preparing to make additional payments as the prolonged search continues.
Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 4:03 PM
Authorities suspended Tuesday's planned sea and air search for signs of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane "due to poor weather conditions in the search area," the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said.
Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 7:23 AM
"All lives are lost," family members of those aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 were told today.
The grim news that the airliner apparently crashed in the southern Indian Ocean was announced by Malaysia's Prime Minister.
The mystery of what happened to the 227 passengers and 12 crew members aboard the Boeing 777 had set off a frenzy of speculation and conspiracy-theory hatching.
Relatives met the news today with anguish, wailing and crying at the Beijing hotel where they had met with Malaysia Airlines officials.
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 Prime Minister said the airliner's last known position was far from any landing area.
Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 7:09 AM
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.
Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 6:18 AM
Malaysia's Prime Minister will make a statement about missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 at 10 p.m. local time Monday (10 a.m. ET), a post on his official Twitter account said.
Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 3:12 AM
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.
Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 9:27 PM
The crew of a Chinese plane searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has spotted "suspicious objects" in the southern Indian Ocean, China's state-run news agency Xinhua reported Monday.
Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 2:59 AM
New satellite images from French authorities show potential debris "in the vicinity of the southern corridor" of the search area for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Malaysia's acting transport minister said Sunday.
"Malaysia immediately relayed these images to the Australian rescue coordination center," he said.
Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 6:07 PM
"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.
Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 8:02 AM
Saturday's search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane included the area shown in new Chinese satellite images in which a large floating object can be seen, but nothing was found, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said.
The object in the satellite images is 22.5 meters long and 13 meters wide (74 feet by 43 feet), officials said.
China said the images were captured four days ago, on March 18.
The floating object was about 77 miles from where earlier satellite images spotted floating debris.
Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 3:59 AM
Malaysian officials have corrected themselves to say that the size of the floating object captured in satellite images in the search area for Flight 370 is 74 feet by 43 feet.
Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 3:11 AM
China has satellite images of floating object, 72 feet by 98 feet, in the southern search area for Flight 370, Malaysian official says.
Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 2:03 AM
Search teams on Australian patrol plane found no evidence of Flight 370 wreckage, says commander of the first plane to return Saturday.
Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 2:14 AM
The first plane to return Friday from a search mission for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 didn't find anything during its patrol of the designated search area in the southern Indian Ocean, said the captain of the Australian air force plane.
Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 2:46 AM
The sightings of objects in the southern Indian Ocean by Australian authorities are credible but are yet to be confirmed as being related to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, said Malaysia's acting transportation minister.
Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 2:31 AM
Watch on CNN: Malaysian authorities hold press conference after overnight developments in search for Flight 370.
Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:25 AM
A flight crew combing the southern Indian Ocean for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 say they're getting radar hits of "significant size," indicating something lying below the water's surface, ABC News reported Thursday.
Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:41 PM
Malaysia Airlines has briefed the families about the information provided by the Australian government, a spokeswoman for the airlines told CNN.
The airline said unless there is confirmation that the objects in the southern Indian Ocean are that of MH370, they are not sending any families members to Australia.
Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:02 PM
An Australian maritime search official says the largest object he's seen in satellite imagery has been judged to be about 78 feet (24 meters) in size.
"The largest object I've seen has been assessed at 24 meters," said John Young, general manager of emergency response for the Australian Maritime Safety Authority.
He described the object as "a blob" on the satellite image.
Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 9:47 PM
The objects are of "reasonable size" and are bobbing up and down the surface of the water, said John Young, general manager of emergency response for the Australian Maritime Safety Authority.
Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 9:28 PM
Watch on CNN: Australian authorities will hold 12:30 a.m. (ET) press conference after report of 2 objects found possibly related to #MH370.
Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 8:30 PM
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Thursday that authorities have found objects in the Indian Ocean that could possibly be related to the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Australian media reported.
Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 2:55 AM
Some information has been deleted from the flight simulator found at the home of Flight 370's pilot, the Malaysian transport minister said. Forensics is trying to recover it, he said.
Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 2:20 AM
A U.S. government source familiar with the investigation into the disappearance of Flight 370 told CNN that he believes it's far more likely that the plane would be located in the so-called southern arc of the search area.
"This is an area out of normal shipping lanes, out of any commercial flight patterns, with few fishing boats and there are no islands," he said.
The source says the search could well last "weeks and not days."
Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 4:20 PM
The U.S. intelligence community is leaning toward a theory that "those in the cockpit" -- the pilots of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 -- were deliberately responsible for whatever happened to the jetliner, a U.S. official with direct knowledge of the latest thinking tells CNN.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, says the Malaysian government had wanted a reason to search the homes of the pilot and co-pilot for several days. But it was only in the past 24 to 36 hours that technical analysis of the collected radar and satellite data gave Malaysian officials sufficient reason to inspect those residences.
Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:44 PM
The evidence in the disappearance of Flight 370 is consistent with someone acting deliberately from inside the plane, said Malaysia's Prime Minister.
Investigators have refocused their attention onto the pilots and passengers on board, he said.
Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 5:06 AM
A Reuters report says military radar data suggest that missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was "deliberately flown hundreds of miles off course" toward India's Andaman Islands, "heightening suspicions of foul play among investigators."
The Malaysian government says it cannot confirm the report.
The report cites unnamed sources and does not say which nation's military radar information is the basis for the report.
The Reuters story comes as the search area for the missing plane has widened again. After starting in the sea between Malaysia and Vietnam, the plane's last confirmed location, efforts are now expanding west into the vastness of the Indian Ocean. The USS Kidd, a destroyer from the U.S. Pacific Fleet, is being moved into the Indian Ocean to aid in the search, Cmdr. William Marks of the U.S. 7th Fleet says.
Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 11:33 AM
New information has led to the possibility of opening a new search area in the Indian Ocean for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, White House spokesman Jay Carney said today. Many countries are partnering in the search and "following leads where we find them," he said.
Flight 370 disappeared Saturday after taking off from Kuala Lumpur. It was headed to Beijing with 239 people on board. The Indian Ocean is in the opposite direction of the plane's flight path.
Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 1:53 AM
The death toll continued to rise overnight following a building explosion and collapse in New York City yesterday.
Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:39 AM
A fifth fatality has been confirmed following a building explosion and collapse in Harlem yesterday, according to the New York Fire Department.
Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 10:27 PM
A fourth fatality has been confirmed following a building explosion and collapse in Harlem yesterday, according to the New York Fire Department.
No other details about the victim were immediately available.
Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 1:37 PM
A Chinese satellite looking into the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 "observed a suspected crash area at sea," a Chinese agency says.
Flight 370 vanished early Saturday with 239 people on board en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:43 AM
Two people were killed and at least 18 people were injured in today's blast that destroyed two buildings in East Harlem, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said. An unspecified number of people are missing, and crews will search the rubble of the buildings as soon as the fire is out, he said.
Preliminary information indicates that a gas leak led to the blast, de Blasio told reporters. "This is a tragedy of the worst kind because there was no indication in time to save people."
Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 8:24 AM
One person died in today's East Harlem building explosion, an NYPD detective says.
The explosion injured at least 16 others and knocked down a building, authorities say. Another NYPD detective told CNN's Poppy Harlow that "1644 Park Avenue appears not to be there anymore." The structure was a five-story residential building.
A Con Edison official tells CNN the utility company had a call of a possible gas leak shortly before the explosion. The official says the company received a call at 9:13 a.m. from someone saying they smelled gas. The official says Con Edison dispatched a truck two minutes later, but the truck had not arrived at the scene when the explosion happened and no Con Ed crews were injured.
Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 7:21 AM
New York police and firefighters are responding to reports of an explosion in East Harlem, authorities say. There are at least 11 minor injuries, according to fire officials.
Images show smoke billowing from the site where a building appeared to have collapsed. The scene is near a major commuter rail line.
Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 8:36 PM
Malaysian authorities have been in contact with counterterrorism organizations about possible passport issues for those aboard missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the transportation minister said. He did not say how many passport issues there are.
Hishamuddin Hussein, who is Malaysia's acting transportation minister and its defense minister, also said that the search area has been expanded because of the possibility the plane had turned back.
The National Transportation Safety Board says it has sent a team to Asia to be ready to assist with the investigation.
The investigators from the NTSB are accompanied by technical advisers from the FAA, according to the NTSB. Boeing, the maker of the 777-200, has announced it will also be part of the NTSB team.
Meanwhile, officials say the FBI is ready to send agents to Asia if requested by the Malaysian government. The information from U.S. officials corrects an earlier report that an official told CNN that FBI agents were being sent to the area.
Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 5:20 PM
The FBI is sending agents to Malaysia to support the investigation into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a U.S. official familiar with the issue has told CNN on condition of anonymity.
The FBI is getting involved because of the Americans on board, and it is not ruling out terrorism or any other issue as a possible cause in the jetliner's disappearance, the official said.
There have been no sightings of wreckage or other signs of the aircraft, a Malaysian aviation authority official said at 9 a.m. Sunday (8 p.m. ET Saturday). "We have not been able to locate anything, see anything," said the official. "There's nothing new to this report."
The Boeing 777-200ER with 239 passengers and crew members aboard departed Kuala Lumpur at 12:41 a.m. Saturday in good weather. It was expected to land in Beijing at 6:30 a.m. Air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane about 2:40 a.m.
Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 3:45 PM
Twenty of the passengers aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 worked with Freescale Semiconductor, an Austin, Texas-based company. The company said that 12 of the employees are from Malaysia and eight are from China.
Most of the 227 passengers on board were Chinese, according to the manifest released by the airline. The 12 crew members were Malaysian.
Other passengers were from India, Indonesia, Australia, the United States, France, New Zealand, Ukraine, Canada, Russia and the Netherlands, the airline said.
Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 6:53 AM
The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane and the 239 people on board is continuing into the night, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, director general of Civil Aviation, told reporters Saturday in Kuala Lumpur.
Air traffic controllers lost track of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 not long after it left Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, on its way to Beijing. More than half the passengers are Chinese nationals.
Austria denies that one of the citizens included on the passenger list issued by Malaysia Airlines was on board, Austrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Weiss told CNN Saturday. The Austrian citizen is safe and sound and his passport was stolen two years ago, Weiss said.
There also was no Italian citizen on board the flight, despite the presence of an Italian name on the passenger list released by the airline, Italian Foreign Ministry spokesman Aldo Amati said Saturday.
Vietnamese and Chinese state media, both citing Vietnam's military, reported the plane crashed off the southern coast of Vietnam.
But the reports are incorrect, said Malaysia's acting transport minister, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein. "The CA (Civil Aviation Authority) says that is not true, and our foreign office says it is not true," he said.
Later, China's state-run CCTV reported that Vietnam's National Search and Rescue Center said the missing plane might have crashed at the overlapping waters between Malaysia and Vietnam.
A Vietnamese aircraft flying over those waters spotted "rubbish" and a liquid floating on the ocean's surface, a search and rescue official told CNN. It is too early to know whether the finding is related to the missing airliner.