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This graphic released by the Malaysian Remote Sensing Agency on Wednesday March 26, 2014, shows satellite imagery taken on March 23, 2014, with the approximate positions of objects seen floating in the southern Indian Ocean in the search zone for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Malaysian Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said at a news conference in Kuala Lumpur Wednesday that a satellite has captured images of 122 objects close to where three other satellites previously detected objects. (AP Photo/Malaysian Remote Sensing Agency)

Satellite spots 122 objects in Malaysia jet search

By TODD PITMAN and ROB GRIFFITH - Associated Press

F1 heads to Malaysia dogged by off-track troubles

By CHRIS LINES - Associated Press

Chinese relatives of passengers onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, flight MH370, shout in protest as they march towards the Malaysia embassy in Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 25, 2014. Furious over Malaysia's handling of the lost jetliner a day after the country said the passengers must be dead, Chinese relatives of the missing marched Tuesday to the Malaysia Embassy, where they threw plastic water bottles, tried to rush the gate and chanted, "Liars!" The blue placard reads: "We won't leave or ditch you, we will wait right here."(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China demands Malaysia turn over satellite data

By Eileen Ng and Scott McDonald - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 22, 2014 file photo, Sgt. Matthew Falanga on board a Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion, search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in southern Indian Ocean, Australia. Not one object has been recovered from the missing airliner that Malaysian officials are now convinced plunged into the southern Indian Ocean 17 days ago. Some of the pieces are likely 3,500 meters (11,500 feet) underwater. Others are bobbing in a fickle system of currents that one oceanographer compares to a pinball machine. And by now, they could easily be hundreds of kilometers (miles) away from each other. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)

Time, uncertainty make plane hunt uniquely hard

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Chinese relatives of passengers onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, flight MH370, shout in protest as they march towards the Malaysia embassy in Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 25, 2014. Furious over Malaysia's handling of the lost jetliner a day after the country said the passengers must be dead, Chinese relatives of the missing marched Tuesday to the Malaysia Embassy, where they threw plastic water bottles, tried to rush the gate and chanted, &quot;Liars!&quot; The blue placard reads: &quot;We won't leave or ditch you, we will wait right here.&quot;(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China demands satellite data on missing plane

By SCOTT McDONALD and EILEEN NG - Associated Press

A Royal Australia Air Force AP-3C Orion leaves the RAAF Pearce Air Base, Sunday, March 23, 2014 in Perth, Australia, to continue the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. Planes and ships scrambled Sunday to find a pallet and other debris in a remote patch of the southern Indian Ocean to determine whether the objects were from the Malaysia Airlines jet that has been missing for more than two weeks. (AP Photo/Matt Jelonek, Pool)

US Navy to preposition black box locator

By ROB GRIFFITH and SCOTT McDONALD - Associated Press

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, center, Malaysia's Minister for Transport Hishamuddin Hussein, left, and director general of the Malaysian Department of Civil Aviation, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, delivers a statement to the media regarding the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner MH370, Saturday, March 15, 2014 in Sepang, Malaysia. Najib said Saturday that investigators believe the missing Malaysian airliner's communications were deliberately disabled, that it turned back from its flight to Beijing and flew for more than seven hours. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Malaysian PM: Flight ‘ended in southern Indian Ocean’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A Malaysian women stand in front of messages board and well wishes to people involved with the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner MH370, Sunday, March 16, 2014 in Sepang, Malaysia. The Malaysian passenger jet missing for more than a week had its communications deliberately disabled and its last signal came about seven and a half hours after takeoff, meaning it could have ended up as far as Kazakhstan or deep in the southern Indian Ocean, Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak said Saturday. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Malaysia P.M. to discuss ‘new developments’ in search for plane

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, a Chinese IL-76 plane searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 returns to Perth airport, Australia after a hunting sortie, Monday, March 24, 2014. A Chinese plane on Monday spotted two white, square-shaped objects in an area identified by satellite imagery as containing possible debris from the missing Malaysian airliner, while the United States separately prepared to send a specialized device that can locate black boxes. The crew aboard an IL-76 plane sighted the object in the southern Indian Ocean and reported the coordinates to the Australian command center, which is coordinating the multinational search, as well as the Chinese icebreaker Snow Dragon, which is en route to the area, China's Xinhua News Agency reported. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Lui Siu Wai) NO SALES

Officials: Missing plane went down in Indian Ocean

By TODD PITMAN and EILEEN NG - Associated Press

FILE - In this undated file photo, Amelia Earhart stands next to a Lockheed Electra 10E, before her last flight in 1937 from Oakland, Calif., bound for Honolulu on the first leg of her record-setting attempt to circumnavigate the world westward along the Equator. American aviator Earhart’s disappearance in 1937 is among aviation’s most enduring mysteries. Earhart, the first female pilot to cross the Atlantic Ocean, vanished over the Pacific with Fred Noonan during an attempt to circumnavigate the globe. Seven decades later, people are still transfixed with the mystery. Theories range from her simply running out of fuel and crashing to her staging her own disappearance and secretly returning to the U.S. to live under another identity. (AP Photo/File)

Correction: Malaysia-Plane-Mystery story

By NICK PERRY and KRISTEN GELINEAU - Associated Press

Japanese Air Self-Defense Force's Capt. Junichi Tanoue, left, co-pilot Ryutaro Hamahira, second from left, and engineer Noriyuki Yamanouchi, second from right, scan the ocean aboard a C130 aircraft while it flies over the southern search area in the southeastern Indian Ocean, 200 to 300 kilometers (124 to 186 miles) south of Sumatra, Indonesia, Friday, March 21, 2014. Search planes scoured a remote patch of the Indian Ocean but came back empty-handed Friday after looking for any sign of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, another disappointing day in one of the world's biggest aviation mysteries. (AP Photo/Koji Ueda)

More planes join ocean hunt for missing jetliner

By SCOTT McDONALD and ROB GRIFFITH - Associated Press

Malaysian Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein, center, Malaysia's Department of Civil Aviation director general Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, left, and Malaysia Airlines Group Chief Executive Ahmad Jauhari Yahya listen to a question of a journalist during a press conference at a hotel in Sepang, Malaysia, Saturday, March 22, 2014. Malaysia said Saturday that a Chinese satellite had spotted a large object along a broad stretch of ocean where officials hope to find a Malaysia Airlines plane that has been missing for more than two weeks. Hishammuddin told reporters Saturday that he had been informed that a Chinese satellite had spotted an object 22.5 meters (74 feet) by 13 meters (43 feet). (AP Photo/Joshua Paul)

China satellite finds object near jet search area

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Japanese Air Self-Defense Force copilot Ryutaro Hamahira scans the ocean aboard a C130 aircraft while it flies over the southern search area in the southeastern Indian Ocean, 200 to 300 kilometers (124 to 186 miles) south of Sumatra, Indonesia, Friday, March 21, 2014. Search planes scoured a remote patch of the Indian Ocean but came back empty-handed Friday after looking for any sign of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, another disappointing day in one of the world's biggest aviation mysteries. (AP Photo/Koji Ueda)

Mystery of missing passenger jet now 2 weeks old

By ROB GRIFFITH and KRISTEN GELINEAU - Associated Press

A man walks past a message board for passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane, at a shopping mall in Petaling Jaya, near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, March 21, 2014. Planes are flying out of Australia again to search for two objects detected by satellite that may be debris from the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)

Australia says nothing spotted in search for missing Malaysian plane

By Kristen Gelineau and Scott McDonald - The Washington Times

In this undated handout picture made available by hoegh.com via NTB Scanpix on Thursday, March 20, 2014, of autoliner &quot;Hoegh St. Petersburg&quot; which is expected to reach an area south west of Australia where possible debris of missing airliner MH370 has been spotted. The ship is expected to arrive in the area in the course of Thursday March 20, 2014. (AP Photo/hoegh.com/ NTB scanpix) NORWAY OUT

‘Best lead’ in plane search: 2 objects seen in sea

By SCOTT MCDONALD and KRISTEN GELINEAU - Associated Press

Australia checking 2 objects in search for missing Malaysian plane

By Kristen Gelineau and Scott McDonald - Associated Press

A woman takes picture in front of messages board for the passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia, Wednesday, March 19, 2014. New radar data from Thailand gave Malaysian investigators more potential clues Wednesday for how to retrace the course of the missing Malaysian airliner, while a massive multinational search unfolded in an area the size of Australia. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Thai radar adds possible clue to trace jet’s route

By Chris Brummitt and Thanyarat Doksone - Associated Press

Passengers walk to check in at Malaysia Airlines counters at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. Checks into the background of all the Chinese nationals on board the missing Malaysian jetliner have uncovered no links to terrorism, the Chinese ambassador in Kuala Lumpur said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)

Plane search spreads through Australia-sized zone

By CHRIS BRUMMITT and THANYARAT DOKSONE - Associated Press

In this handout photo taken March 4, 2014 and provided March 18, 2014 by Daniel Liau, Chinese artist Wang Linshi, poses for a picture in front of pieces of his work on display at an exhibition of Chinese art in Kuala Lumpur, just days before he boarded Malaysia Airlines flight 370 to Beijing that has since gone missing. Wang, 69, worked for the Chinese government in the eastern city of Nanjing until he retired, but his passion was painting, according to son Wang Zhen. (AP Photo)

Passengers, crew on board missing Malaysia plane

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

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A woman paints her palm with water colors during an event for passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Monday, March 17, 2014. Authorities now believe someone on board the Boeing 777 shut down part of the aircraft's messaging system about the same time the plane with 239 people on board disappeared from civilian radar. But an Inmarsat satellite was able to automatically connect with a portion of the messaging system that remained in operation, similar to a phone call that just rings because no one is on the other end to pick it up and provide information. No location information was exchanged, but the satellite continued to identify the plane once an hour for four to five hours after it disappeared from radar screens.

Missing Malaysian jetliner sparks new life into old terror plots

By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times