The Malaysian authorities on March 13 decided to further extend the search for the lost Malaysia Airlines jetliner westwards towards India.
The decision was made after the Wall Streets Journal on the same day quoted US aviation investigators and national security officials as saying that the plane stayed in the air for five hours past the time it reached its last confirmed location and had enough fuel to fly to somewhere in the Indian Ocean.
The search for the missing plane has been expanded to sites very far from where it lost radar contact in the East Sea, covering a vast area of up to 92,600 square kilometres, equivalent to the area of Portugal.
On the same day, India and the US dispatched their ships to join the operation.
No traces of the lost Boeing 777-200 aircraft were found after six days of a massive search involved by a dozen countries, including Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore and China.
Flight MH370 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members went missing on early March 8 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.-VNA
The decision was made after the Wall Streets Journal on the same day quoted US aviation investigators and national security officials as saying that the plane stayed in the air for five hours past the time it reached its last confirmed location and had enough fuel to fly to somewhere in the Indian Ocean.
The search for the missing plane has been expanded to sites very far from where it lost radar contact in the East Sea, covering a vast area of up to 92,600 square kilometres, equivalent to the area of Portugal.
On the same day, India and the US dispatched their ships to join the operation.
No traces of the lost Boeing 777-200 aircraft were found after six days of a massive search involved by a dozen countries, including Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore and China.
Flight MH370 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members went missing on early March 8 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.-VNA
