WEST PARIS — Ernie Yap’s vision helps rural Malaysians focus. Yap moved from Kuching, Sarawak, East Malaysia, to the U.S. in 1968. “Almost 50 years ago now,” he said. The former nursing home administrator graduated from college and found work in Nashville, Tenn., and then moved to Georgia, where he bought a Western Auto franchise. […]
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Aviation experts say recovered debris from missing Malaysia Airlines flight
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysia’s prime minister says experts in France have determined that a barnacle-encrusted airplane wing fragment came from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared more than a year ago with 239 people aboard. Prime Minister Najib Razak said at a news conference on Wednesday that “an international team of experts have conclusively […]
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Malaysian prime minister says plane went down in Indian Ocean
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A new analysis of satellite data indicates the missing Malaysia Airlines plane crashed into a remote corner of the Indian Ocean, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said Monday. The news is a major breakthrough in the unprecedented two-week struggle to find out what happened to Flight 370, which disappeared shortly after takeoff […]
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China satellite detects object in jet search area
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Search planes headed back out to a desolate patch of the southern Indian Ocean on Sunday in hopes of finding answers to the fate of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, after China released a satellite image showing a large object floating in the search zone. The object, which appeared to […]
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Australia says nothing spotted in search for plane
Australian officials pledged to continue the search for two large objects spotted by a satellite earlier this week, which had raised hopes that the two-week hunt for the Boeing 777 that disappeared March 8 with 239 people on board was nearing a breakthrough. But Australia’s acting prime minister, Warren Truss, tamped down expectations. “Something that […]
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Best lead’ in plane search: 2 objects seen in sea
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A freighter used searchlights early Friday to scan rough seas in one of the remotest places on Earth after satellite images detected possible pieces from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane in the southern Indian Ocean. In what officials called the “best lead” of the nearly two-week-old aviation mystery, a satellite […]
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Australia to continue search for suspected missing plane objects spotted by satellite
UPDATED 9:40 a.m. KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — An air search in the southern Indian Ocean for possible objects from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane described as the “best lead” so far ended for the day without success Thursday but will resume in the morning, Australian rescue officials said. The four planes were checking to […]
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Focus turns to pilots as hunt for jet widens
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Attention focused Sunday on the pilots of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight after the country’s leader announced findings so far that suggest someone with intimate knowledge of the Boeing 777’s cockpit seized control of the plane and sent it off-course. Prime Minister Najib Razak gave the first detailed findings Saturday […]