Malaysia on Thursday formally declared missing flight MH370 an "accident" and its passengers and crew presumed dead, a step that opens the door for compensation payments but which was met with skepticism by distraught relatives. "It is therefore, with the heaviest heart and deepest sorrow that, on behalf of the government of Malaysia, we officially ...

[caption id="attachment_117406" align="alignright" width="223"] The southern Indian Ocean pictured at 500 feet above sea level. Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters[/caption] GO Phoenix ship to begin searching a remote patch of the Indian Ocean where investigators believe the plane ran out of fuel Crews will resume the underwater hunt for missingMalaysia ...

Malaysias former prime minister says the CIA spy agency is hiding crucial facts about the destiny of the missing Malaysian Airlines plane. Commenting on his personal weblog on Sunday, Mahathir Mohamad questioned crash scenario for the plane. He said CIA and the Boeing Company may be withholding data on the flight, but for some reasons, media outlets ...

(CNN)-- Australia's Prime Minister on Saturday reiterated his "high degree of confidence" that acoustic signals picked up by searchers in the Indian Ocean are from the missing Malaysian plane's black box. But Tony Abbott warned that locating the flight data recorders beneath nearly three miles of water would be a "massive, massive task." "It is ...

The co-pilot of missing Malaysian airliner MH370 attempted to make a mid-flight call from his mobile phone just before the plane vanished from radar screens, a report said Saturday citing unnamed investigators. The call ended abruptly possibly "because the aircraft was fast moving away from the telecommunications tower", The New Straits Times quoted ...

Ships searching for the missingMalaysian Airplane heard signals that are consistent with pings emitted by aircraft black boxes, the biggest breakthrough in the mystery that started a month ago. Thetowedpinger-locatoron Australias Ocean Shield detected a first signal for two hours and 20 minutes, and a second one for 13 minutes over the weekend, said ...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) Time is running out to find the crucial keys that could solve the mystery of how and why Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went down. After the excruciating 17-day wait for confirmation that the Boeing 777 crashed into the southern Indian Ocean, searchers are racing to locate the so-called black boxes before a battery-powered ...