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'We have to find the aircraft': Days later, no sign of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
With lead after lead failing to pan out, search and rescue officials
said Monday they will expand the search area for the Malaysia Airlines
aircraft that vanished three days ago.
The newly expanded search
area encompasses a larger portion of the Gulf of Thailand between
Malaysia and Vietnam, said Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, director general of
the Malaysian Civil Aviation Department.
Nearly three dozen aircraft and 40 ships from 10 countries have so far failed to find any sign of the aircraft.
An oil slick that
searchers had thought might be from the plane turned out to be fuel oil
typically used in cargo ships, according to Rahman.
Other leads -- reports
that a plane door and its tail had been spotted -- turned out to be
untrue, he said at an earlier briefing.
"Unfortunately, ladies
and gentlemen, we have not found anything that appear to be objects from
the aircraft, let alone the aircraft," Rahman said at the earlier
briefing.
Authorities are sending
ships to investigate a report of debris found south of Hong Kong, but it
will likely be Tuesday before authorities know if there is anything to
those reports, Rahman said.
No emergency signal has
been detected by any search vessel or aircraft. And family members of
passengers are being told to prepare for the worst.
So the mysteries
surrounding Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 -- and the true identities of
some of its passengers -- remain unsolved.
"For the aircraft to go missing just like that ... as far as we are concerned, we are equally puzzled as well," Rahman said.
"We have to find the aircraft."
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