missing plane

SYDNEY (AP) — Two pieces of debris recently discovered along the coast of Mozambique are “highly likely” to have come from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Australian officials said Thursday. An analysis of the parts by an international investigation team showed both pieces are consistent with panels from a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 aircraft, Transport […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Air safety investigators have a “high degree of confidence” that aircraft debris found in the Indian Ocean is of a wing component unique to the Boeing 777, the same model as the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared last year, a U.S. official said Wednesday. Air safety investigators — one of them a […]

PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia (AP) — Strong currents and blinding silt thwarted an attempt by divers on Thursday to find AirAsia Flight 8501’s black boxes, which are believed to still be in the recently discovered tail of the crashed plane. The flight data and cockpit voice recorders are crucial for determining what caused the jet carrying […]

PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia (AP) — Six bloated bodies and debris seen floating in Indonesian waters Tuesday painfully ended the mystery of AirAsia Flight 8501, which crashed into the Java Sea with 162 people aboard and was lost to searchers for more than two days. The bodies were found about 160 kilometers (100 miles) from land […]