Malaysia Boosts Efforts to Find Plane as Boats Scour Sea
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Malaysia stepped up efforts to locate a jet that may have crashed in the Gulf of Thailand, focusing on oil slicks and two passengers who used stolen passports, with officials examining television footage.
While the sighting of the slicks is confirmed, there’s still no sign of debris from Malaysian Airline System Bhd.’s Flight 370, with 239 people on board, Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said today. All the passengers on the flight to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur are being investigated, with a specific focus on four names, he said without elaborating. The airline said today that it is fearing the worst.