Malaysia widened the search area for a missing jetliner, dispatching ships to check debris in the South China Sea, as the hunt for clues spread to space with satellite surveillance in a mystery entering its fourth day.
Vietnam’s coastal waters will be a target for patrol planes today after some objects were spotted on the surface. That moved the inquiry east of the route of Malaysian Airline System Bhd.’s Flight 370 after focusing on the Gulf of Thailand, where an oil slick once seen as a crash marker proved to be marine fuel.
