White House: Hunt for missing airliner may extend to Indian Ocean
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Authorities searching for a missing Malaysian airliner may extend the hunt hundreds of miles farther west into the Indian Ocean, a U.S. official said Thursday, as the Malaysian government acknowledged it has made little progress in solving the mystery of the vanished plane.
The White House cited unspecified “new information” as the basis for expanding the search.
In a news conference, Malaysia’s defense minister and a Malaysia Airlines chief executive played down or dismissed a series of leads that had led to frenzied speculation about the fate of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which went missing nearly a week ago over the Gulf of Thailand in a case that has become more difficult by the day.
In what Malaysian officials describe as an unprecedented aviation mystery, it remains unknown whether the plane, which carried 239 passengers and crew, is on land or in water, east of the country or to the west, or even somewhere far beyond.
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