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Moving now to some of the top stories on the global front...
From the mystery of the Malaysian airliner... to Chile's first female president being sworn
in for a second term,... we now go over to our Paul Yi at the news center.
Paul... let's start with the latest in the search for that missing plane.
What do we know so far?
Well, Ji-hae... frustrations are mounting after five days of search efforts, with still
no sign of wreckage from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
The international teams have further expanded their search after earlier reports of military
radar signals came to a dead end. Our Kim Hyun-bin has the details.
The search for a missing Malaysian airliner stretched into its fifth day on Wednesday,...
with still no concrete evidence to explain what happened to the plane and the more than
230 people who were on board. With no sign of the plane, the search area
has been expanded to an area that stretches all the way from China to the Andaman Sea
west of Thailand. This, after Vietnam briefly scaled down its
search operations after saying it had been getting mixed signals from Malaysia over the
flight path of Flight 370. Authorities continue to look for clues that
may explain what happened.
"I think there is a lot of speculation right now, some claims of responsibility that have
not been confirmed or corroborated at all. We're looking at it very carefully."
The Malaysian military says the plane was in the air for over an hour before it vanished
from radar... and had traveled about 500 kilometers off course.
It added that the plane's transponder and tracking devices were switched off after the
plane veered off track. Some experts speculate that there might have
been a sudden electrical malfunction on the plane,... pointing out that backup power would
only last an hour.
Officials have not ruled out the possibility of pilot suicide, as transponder signals are
controlled in the cockpit. Adding to the confusion, a Malaysian newspaper
quoted Malaysian air force chief Rodzali Daud on Tuesday as saying that military radar had
tracked the missing plane to the Strait of Malacca.
Rodzali denies he ever made the comments. Kim Hyun-bin, Arirang News.