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Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur on the morning of March 8, but
lost contact with air traffic control an hour later and disappeared off the radar.
No trace of the plane and the 239 people on board have been found and few details about
what could have happened to the plane have been determined.
Here's what we know now as of now about the investigation into missing flight MH370.
Check out ABC News' photos of the search for the flight here, too.
Search Focuses on Indian Ocean off Australia, But Turns Up Nothing
Five Australian and U.S. aircraft searched a region of some 15,000 square nautical miles
today for signs of the plane's debris after satellite images showed a couple of objects,the
largest about 78 feet long, floating in the ocean. Finding them, however, will not be
easy and the search today came up empty. Norway has a freighter in the area searching
the waters. Australia's navy also has dispatched a ship
to the area. Japan has sent two search planes
China is sending several ships and three military planes
A British navy ship is heading into the region Malaysia has asked the U.S. for "pinger locator
hyrophones" to help locate the black boxes that are presumed to be at the bottom of the
ocean by now. The sonar buoys are used to detect the "ping" of the black box.
The search is taking place in a span of the Indian Ocean between Australia and the Antarctic
known as the "roaring forties" for its sharp westerly winds and rough waters, conditions
that may have pushed debris far afield or caused it to sink quickly after a crash. "It
is an extremely remote part of the southern Indian Ocean... about the most inaccessible
spot that you could imagine on the face of the earth," Australian Prime Minister Tony
Abbott said today. The Investigation
Satellite pings have shown that the plane traveled some 7.5 hours after its last known
contact with radar, and that it likely flew in a southern arc toward the Indian Ocean
west of Australia. Malaysian and U.S. investigators searched
the at-home flight simulator of Capt. Zaharie Ahmad Shah but found no clues pointing toward
a nefarious motive. U.S. officials are trying to recover files deleted from the flight simulator.
Police are still looking into whether Shah and copilot Fariq Abdul Hamid could have had
anything to do with the plane's disappearance. A British satellite company said Thursday
that they had indications the plane was in the south Indian Ocean nearly two weeks ago,
but the search for the plane did not move to that part of the world until nearly a week
after the plane vanished. The revelation cast more doubt upon the investigative abilities
of the Malaysian authorities.