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MH370

Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 31, 2015
MH370 trail now leads through France, where investigators will probe plane debris
A mystery that began with the disappearance of a Malaysian plane en route to China that detoured to the waters off Australia's coast has now spread across the Indian Ocean close to Africa. Next stop: France.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 13, 2015
MH370 hunt discovers a previously unrecorded shipwreck
The yearlong, $48 million search for a missing Malaysia Airlines jet has at last uncovered wreckage, albeit likely not that of the missing plane.
EDITORIALS
Mar 12, 2015
A year since MH370 went missing
The passage of a year since Malaysian Airlines flight 370 vanished has brought no relief to the families of the 239 people who were lost in this, as yet, inexplicable tragedy.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 8, 2015
Abducted by aliens? Stolen by Russians? MH370 theories abound
One year on from the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, an extraordinary amount of key data remains unknown — fueling conspiracy theories and heated online debate about one of aviation's biggest mysteries.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 30, 2014
Java Sea said shallow in search area for missing AirAsia jetliner
The team searching for the AirAsia Bhd. plane that disappeared on a stormy flight to Singapore will benefit from the fact that the jet's last known location was over shallow and well-traveled waters among Indonesia's islands.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 7, 2014
Grieving Chinese familes of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 face police violence
Six months after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 went missing, relatives of the victims, desperate for any hint of what happened, say Chinese authorities have become openly hostile toward them.
BUSINESS
Sep 3, 2014
Since MH370 vanished, Thai coup erupted, Chinese tourists steering clear of Southeast Asia
China's biggest online travel agency is offering a 30 percent discount on trips to Southeast Asia's beaches and malls. The Chinese aren't buying it.
WORLD
Jul 21, 2014
Dutchman escapes Malaysia Airlines incidents — twice
A Dutch cyclist, riding for the Terrengganu team in Malaysia, escaped a Malaysia Airlines plane crash. Twice.
JAPAN
Jul 18, 2014
'All parties' need access to Malaysian plane crash site in Ukraine: Suga
Officials in Tokyo on Friday rushed to gather information about a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet that was reportedly downed by a missile over eastern Ukraine on Thursday, demanding that all relevant parties be allowed to inspect the crash site to determine the cause of the tragedy.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 27, 2014
MH370 jet passengers likely suffocated, Australia says
The passengers and crew of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 most likely died from suffocation and coasted lifelessly into the ocean on autopilot, Australian officials said Thursday.
COMMENTARY / World
May 5, 2014
Malaysia's jet, Korea's ferry tell larger stories
Tragedy has struck Malaysia and South Korea in recent weeks, with the travails of searching for a lost airliner and of recovering bodies from a sunken ferry played out in horrifying detail on the world's TV screens. Unlike Malaysia, though, South Korea is likely to come out of its crisis stronger than ever.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 2, 2014
Malaysia releases missing plane report, reveals confusion
Malaysia on Thursday released its most comprehensive account yet of what happened to missing Flight MH370, in a preliminary report that detailed the route the plane probably took as it veered off course and revealed the confusion that followed.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 12, 2014
Fading signals add urgency to search for missing Malaysian jet
The search for a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner resumed Saturday, five weeks after the plane disappeared from radar screens, amid fears that batteries powering signals from the black box recorder on board may have died.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 8, 2014
Costs skyrocket in search for Flight MH370
The hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is on track to cost hundreds of millions of dollars, becoming the most expensive search in aviation history with 26 countries contributing planes, ships, submarines and satellites to the international effort.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 7, 2014
Australia says new 'pings' best lead yet in Malaysia jet search
An Australian ship searching for a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner picks up signals consistent with beacons from its black box recorders — the most promising lead yet.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 6, 2014
Flight MH370: Aussie PM hopeful, cautious on potential breakthrough
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Sunday searchers were "hopeful but by no means certain" that a pulse signal reportedly detected by a Chinese ship in the Indian Ocean was related to a Malaysia Airlines jetliner missing for four weeks.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 31, 2014
MH370 not the work of terrorists, U.S. says
Senior U.S. lawmakers on Sunday said that investigators have found no evidence thus far pointing to terrorism in the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 three weeks ago, and that it is critical to find the plane to understand what happened on board.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 30, 2014
Finding MH370 may take years: U.S. Navy
The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 could take years, a U.S. Naval Officer suggested on Sunday, as search and rescue officials raced to locate the plane's black box recorder days before its batteries are set to die.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 29, 2014
Rivalries hamper hunt for jet
The search for Flight MH370, the Malaysia Airlines plane that vanished over the South China Sea on March 8, has involved more than two dozen countries and 60 aircraft and ships, but it has also been bedeviled by regional rivalries.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 29, 2014
Malaysia Airlines search shifted again, debris quickly spotted
Fresh objects spotted by planes searching for a missing Malaysian passenger jet in a new area of the southern Indian Ocean have again raised hopes of unravelling the three-week old mystery.

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