Unprecedented mystery:Ten countries search sea for Malaysia Airlines jet
The disappearance of a Malaysian
airliner about an hour into a flight to Beijing is an “unprecedented
mystery”, the civil aviation chief said on Monday.
As a massive air and sea search now in its third day failed to find any trace of the plane or 239 people on board.
Dozens of ships and aircraft from 10
countries scoured the seas around Malaysia and south of Vietnam as
questions mounted over possible security lapses and whether a bomb or
hijacking attempt could have brought down the Boeing 777-200ER which
took off from the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur.
Hopes for a breakthrough rose briefly when Vietnam scrambled helicopters to investigate a floating yellow object
it was thought could have been a life raft. But the country’s Civil
Aviation Authority said on its website that the object turned out to be a
“moss-covered cap of a cable reel”.
Flight MH370 disappeared from radar
screens in the early hours of Saturday, about an hour into its flight
from Kuala Lumpur, after climbing to a cruising altitude of 35,000 ft.
The area of the search would be widened
from Tuesday, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, the head of Malaysia’s Civil
Aviation Authority, told reporters.
A senior police official told Reuters
that people armed with explosives and carrying false identity papers had
tried to fly out of Kuala Lumpur in the past, and that current
investigations were focused on two passengers who were on the missing
plane with stolen passports.
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