Malaysia on Thursday formally declared missing flight MH370 an "accident" and its passengers and crew presumed dead, a step that opens the door for compensation payments but which was met with skepticism by distraught relatives. "It is therefore, with the heaviest heart and deepest sorrow that, on behalf of the government of Malaysia, we officially ...

Australian authorities have announced a new phase in underwater search for the still missing Malaysian passenger plane that disappeared over six months ago with nearly 240 people on board. Three search vessels will reportedly spend up to a year looking for the wreckage of the Boeing 777 used for flight MH-370 in a 60,000-square-kilometer area of seabed ...

[caption id="attachment_103210" align="alignright" width="186"] Crew aboard the Australian Defence Vessel Ocean Shield move the U.S. Navy's Bluefin-21 autonomous underwater vehicle into position for deployment in the southern Indian Ocean to look for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, April 14, 2014 in this handout picture released by the ...

The Malaysian prime minister has announced that the missing Malaysian passenger jet has crashed in the Southern Indian Ocean, killing all people on board. In a press conference in Kuala Lumpur on Monday night, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak cited new satellite information, saying that the planes last position was southwest of Australias Perth. The ...