Twenty-six countries have continued searching two vast arcs of land and sea for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, with no sign of a breakthrough in the investigation 11 days after flight MH370 vanished.
The search area now covers 2.24m square nautical miles – an area larger than Australia and stretching from central Asia down to the southern Indian Ocean.
The Boeing 777 vanished early on 8 March en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 227 passengers and 12 crew on board. Malaysian officials have said they believe the plane was diverted deliberately but are not ruling out any possible reasons for the change of course.
Police in the Maldives said they were investigating reports that people on one of its outer islands had seen a low-flying plane early on 8 March but gave no further details. Media reports have suggested that residents saw a low-flying white plane with red or blue markings but there have been previous potential sightings that do not appear to have been borne out, adding to the anguish of waiting families.
"Personally I hope it has been hijacked and she is still alive," said Wang Yongzhi, from Beijing, whose wife was on flight MH370. "But from a practical, scientific point of view I know it has been quite a long time. Probably bad luck outweighs the good."
On Tuesday Malaysian officials urged countries on the plane's potential path to reanalyse their military radar data in the hope of narrowing down the area – which comprises two great arcs sweeping north towards Kazakhstan and deep into the southern Indian Ocean far off the coast of Australia.
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The search area now covers 2.24m square nautical miles – an area larger than Australia and stretching from central Asia down to the southern Indian Ocean.
The Boeing 777 vanished early on 8 March en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 227 passengers and 12 crew on board. Malaysian officials have said they believe the plane was diverted deliberately but are not ruling out any possible reasons for the change of course.
Police in the Maldives said they were investigating reports that people on one of its outer islands had seen a low-flying plane early on 8 March but gave no further details. Media reports have suggested that residents saw a low-flying white plane with red or blue markings but there have been previous potential sightings that do not appear to have been borne out, adding to the anguish of waiting families.
"Personally I hope it has been hijacked and she is still alive," said Wang Yongzhi, from Beijing, whose wife was on flight MH370. "But from a practical, scientific point of view I know it has been quite a long time. Probably bad luck outweighs the good."
On Tuesday Malaysian officials urged countries on the plane's potential path to reanalyse their military radar data in the hope of narrowing down the area – which comprises two great arcs sweeping north towards Kazakhstan and deep into the southern Indian Ocean far off the coast of Australia.
http://feeds.theguardian.com/c/34708/f/663828/s/3859212e/sc/39/l/0L0Stheguardian0N0Cworld0C20A140Cmar0C190Cmh370A0Eplane0Esearch0Esweeps0Efar0Eto0Enorth0Eand0Esouth0Eof0Eequator/story01.htm
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