US navy submersible has so far covered 95% of search area Relatives protest outside Malaysian embassy in Beijing The seabed search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet is set to widen as a sonar scan of the most likely crash site deep beneath the Indian Ocean nears completion without yielding a single clue, authorities said on Friday. The autonomous underwater vehicle, Bluefin-21, has so far searched...
With 95% of target seabed area searched for missing Malaysia Airlines flight without success experts fear wider hunt could take years The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane could take years, a senior US defence official has warned, as the underwater search off Western Australia failed to find any trace of wreckage or black boxes. A US navy submersible drone has been scouring the southern...
Japanese ship boarded in Malacca Strait and diesel pumped into waiting vessels before raiders fled taking three crew with them Armed pirates raided a Japanese oil tanker in the Malacca Strait, pumping out much of its cargo and taking three crew away, Malaysian maritime police have said. Six pirates in a speedboat boarded the Naninwa Maru 1 at 1am local time on Wednesday off the coast of west Malaysia,...
Defence minister says system that found Titanic may be brought in as robot mini-sub finds no sign of wreckage so far Australian authorities searching for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 are gearing up to send in much more powerful sonar equipment to scan for debris on the seabed. Search co-ordinators said on Wednesday that nothing had been found by the US navy robotic submarine Bluefin 21,...
US president to hold talks with Japanese PM on first stop of eight-day tour of Asia taking in South Korea and Malaysia Barack Obama is expected to offer guarded support for Japan in its bitter territorial dispute with China over a group of islands in the East China Sea, as Washington seeks to reassure its Asia-Pacific allies of its commitment to regional security in the face of an increasingly assertive...
Operation suspended with still no sign of wreckage from days of scanning by submersible drone in area of black box 'pings' A tropical cyclone heading south over the Indian Ocean caused the air search for a missing Malaysian jetliner to be suspended on Tuesday as a US submarine drone neared completion of its undersea search without any sign of wreckage. The daily air and sea sorties have continued...
Australias joint co-ordination centre says Bluefin-21 submersible has finished eight missions looking for the missing plane Two-thirds of the focused underwater search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight has now been completed, with no sightings of wreckage or debris. Australias joint co-ordination centre said on Monday that the underwater vehicle Bluefin-21 had completed eight missions looking...
Hamzah Zainuddin says fund could be set up by government or airline, as unmanned submarine continues to search for plane A Malaysian official has met relatives of passengers who were aboard the missing flight MH370 to discuss ways of providing them with financial assistance. Hamzah Zainuddin, the deputy foreign affairs minister, said a fund could possibly be set up by the government or by Malaysia...
Harry Woolhouse, 32, from Peterborough, was a passenger on bus that fell down 15-metre slope at an oil palm plantation A British man has died after a double-decker bus reportedly plunged into a ravine in Malaysia. Harry Woolhouse, 32, from Peterborough, was the only person killed in the crash, the New Straits Times reported. The bus was reportedly taking foreign tourists to Singapore when it fell down...
Ten years after being jailed, Anwar Ibrahim faces renewed charges of sodomy as regime clamps down on opponents The last time Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia's opposition leader, was sent to prison, he read the complete works of Shakespeare, (five times), wrote essays and treatises, gave interviews and strategised about how best to lead the opposition party to victory against the ruling party, which has governed...
Indian Ocean hunt by US navy deep-sea vehicle narrows to an area with a radius of just 10km The underwater search for the flight recorders from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 could be completed in five to seven days, Australian officials said on Saturday. A US navy deep-sea autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), Bluefin-21, is scouring a remote stretch of the Indian Ocean floor for signs...
Civil service global roundup: Lagos governor encourages younger leaders and veterans favoured in US federal hiring The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies is organising a two-and-a-half-day training programme on the prevention of mass atrocities. Continue reading... ...
Data from Bluefin-21 still being analysed but nothing of note yet found, say officials hunting for missing Malaysia Airlines plane A robotic submarine has completed its first successful scan of the seabed in the hunt for the missing Malaysian plane, but investigators say tests have ruled out that a nearby oil slick came from the aircraft. The Bluefin-21's first two missions were cut short by technical...
Hishammuddin Hussein, Malaysia's acting transport minister, says the search for the missing plane 'will not scale down'. An autonomous mini-submarine was deployed on Monday and Tuesday and search co-ordinators are waiting to see the data from its journey. Hussein insisted the Malaysian government was being transparent after it was criticised for withholding information Continue reading... ...
US navy Bluefin craft will hover at a depth of 4,500m to collect data on the seabed where team believes plane crashed A submersible looking for the lost Malaysia Airlines jet continued its second seabed search on Wednesday as up to 14 planes prepared to make some of the final sweeps of the Indian Ocean for signs of the ill-fated airliner. The US navy's Bluefin 21 submarine began its second 20-hour...
Officials looking for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 are trying to narrow the search area before sending unmanned vehicles underwater to scour the floor of the Indian Ocean. Tony Abbott, the prime minister of Australia, said on Saturday the battery of the plane's black box flight data recorder is 'rapidly fading' Continue reading... ...
Malaysian paper says co-pilot's mobile phone was switched on as plane vanished from radar screens near Penang island The co-pilot of the missing Malaysian airliner MH370 tried to make a mid-flight call from his mobile phone just before the plane vanished from radar screens, according to Malaysian newspaper reports. The call ended abruptly possibly "because the aircraft was fast moving away from...
Despite success in narrowing search area, officials say there have been no confirmed pings from the recorder for 24 hours The search for a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner resumed on Saturday, five weeks after the plane disappeared from radar screens, amid fears that batteries powering signals from the black box recorder on board may have died. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said signals...
Locating jet in the southern Indian Ocean is only first step in solving the mystery of missing plane To sink underwater by the height of Britain's tallest tower would still only cover 7% of the descent to the floor of the Indian Ocean, 4,500 metres down, where the black boxes from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 are presumed to lie. Even at those 300 metre comparative shallows, all is dark. The furthest...
Australian PM is 'confident' about the position of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370's black box flight recorder to 'within some kilometres'. Several 'pings' which are believed to have been emitted from the black box have been detected in recent days Continue reading... ...