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Malaysia (MAS) is expanding the search for a missing passenger jet further east into the South China Sea and farther west into the Indian Ocean after a multination week-long search has turned up few clues about the fate of Flight 370.
'A normal investigation becomes narrower with time, as new information focuses the search,' Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said in Kuala Lumpur today. 'But this is not a normal investigation. In this case, the information we have forces us to look further and further afield.'
The search has shifted westward since aviation investigators compiled signs the 777-200 veered off its route to Beijing and turned back over Malaysia, beyond the limits of the country's radar, according to two people who asked not to be identified because the probe is ongoing. Indian forces expanded the search for the missing Malaysian airliner to the Bay of Bengal after evidence mounted the plane with 239 people on board may have flown long after controllers lost contact with it a week ago.
A satellite transmitter on the plane was active for about five hours, indicating the plane was operational after its transponder shut down less than an hour after takeoff, said three U.S. government officials.
To contact the reporters on this story: Alan Levin in Washington at alevin24@bloomberg.net; Chong Pooi Koon in Kuala Lumpur at pchong17@bloomberg.net; Ranjeetha Pakiam in Kuala Lumpur at rpakiam@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Anand Krishnamoorthy at anandk@bloomberg.net
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