It's a mystery that authorities still haven't been able to solve: Where is Malaysia Airlines Flight 370?There were still more questions than answers Thursday as U.S. officials said investigators might start combing the Indian Ocean in their search for the missing aircraft.
Why would authorities expand their search rather than narrowing it?New information, U.S. officials told CNN, indicates the missing airplane could have flown for several hours beyond the last radar reading.
Malaysian authorities believe they have several "pings" of engine data from the airliner's service data system, known as ACARS, transmitted to satellites in the four to five hours after the last transponder signal, suggesting the plane is believed to have flown into the Indian Ocean, a senior U.S. official told CNN. That information combined with known radar data and knowledge of fuel range leads officials to believe the plane may have made it to the Indian Ocean.
That possibility is the latest twist in a case that's baffled investigators and grabbed global attention for days. Information about the missing flight has been hard to come by, and numerous leads have been revealed by some officials only to be debunked by others hours later.
There are conflicting reports about this latest lead as well.Earlier Thursday the Malaysian government denied a Wall Street Journal report that the plane was transmitting data after the last transponder signal.
A senior aviation source with detailed knowledge of thematter also told CNN's Richard Quest on Thursday thatthere was no technical data suggesting the airplane continued flying for four hours, and said specifically that the Wall Street Journal account was wrong.
But the American officials said Thursday afternoon this is information that is being actively pursued in the plane investigation.
The Malaysians have not ascertained without a doubt the data is from the missing flight, leaving open the possibility it is a reading from another flight that was nearby, according to the senior US official.
...CNN
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