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A note paper with messages for passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane, is pasted on a message board at a shopping mall in Petaling Jaya, near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Sunday, March 16, 2014. Malaysian authorities Sunday were investigating the pilots of the missing jetliner after it was established that whoever flew off with the Boeing 777 had intimate knowledge of the cockpit and knew how to avoid detection when navigating around Asia. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)

Final words from jet came after systems shutdown

By CHRIS BRUMMITT and JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

A woman leaves a message for passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane, at a shopping mall in Petaling Jaya, near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Sunday, March 16, 2014. Malaysian authorities Sunday were investigating the pilots of the missing jetliner after it was established that whoever flew off with the Boeing 777 had intimate knowledge of the cockpit and knew how to avoid detection when navigating around Asia. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)

Malaysia asks for sensitive radar data to help find jet as search expands to pilots

By Chris Brummitt and Jim Gomez - Associated Press

Chinese relatives of passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane stand inside a hotel room after attending a briefing by Malaysia Airlines in Beijing, China Sunday, March 16, 2014. Attention focused Sunday on the pilots of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight after the country's leader announced findings so far that suggest someone with intimate knowledge of the Boeing 777's cockpit seized control of the plane and sent it off-course. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Malaysia’s handling of lost plane irritates China

By LOUISE WATT - 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 leader: Plane’s disappearance deliberate

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Muslim men arrive at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport Mosque for afternoon prayers where a special prayer session will be offered for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Friday, March 14, 2014 in Sepang, Malaysia. Vietnam says it has downgraded but not stopped its search for the missing jetliner in the South China Sea and has been asked by Malaysian authorities to consider sending planes and ships to the Strait of Malacca. The statement Friday is a sign that the focus of the search effort is switching to the west of Malaysia, to the strait and further west into the Indian Ocean. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Search for missing jet expands toward Indian Ocean

By CHRIS BRUMMITT and JOAN LOWY - Associated Press

Planes sent Thursday to search the area where Chinese satellite images showed possible debris from the missing Malaysian jetliner found nothing, Malaysia's civil aviation chief said, deflating the latest lead in the six-day hunt. (China Resources Satellite Application Center)

Malaysia: No debris in area shown on China images

By Chris Brummitt and Jim Gomez - Associated Press

Workers push a Vietnam Air Force rescue aircraft after searching mission for a missing Malaysian Airlines plane, in Ho Chi Minh city airbase, Vietnam Wednesday, March 12, 2014. More than four days after the Malaysian jetliner went missing en route to Beijing, authorities acknowledged Wednesday they didn't know which direction the plane carrying 239 passengers was heading when it disappeared, vastly complicating efforts to find it. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)

FAA’s pre-Malaysia flight warning: 777s have cracking, corrosion issues

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Indonesian Air Force officers examine a map of the Malacca Strait during a briefing following a search operation for the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777, at Suwondo air base in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Wednesday, March 12, 2014. Malaysia asked India to join the expanding search for the missing jetliner near the Andaman Sea, far to the northwest of its last reported position and a further sign Wednesday that authorities have no idea where the plane might be more than four days after it vanished. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)

After 6 days, Malaysian jet mystery still unsolved

By CHRIS BRUMMITT and JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

Ground staff work on a Malaysia Airlines plane at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia, Wednesday, March 12, 2014. The missing Malaysian jetliner may have attempted to turn back before it vanished from radar, but there is no evidence it reached the Strait of Malacca, Malaysia's air force chief said Wednesday, denying reported remarks he said otherwise. The statement suggested continued confusion over where the Boeing 777 might have ended up, more than four days after it disappeared en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur with 239 people on board. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)

China says its satellite images could show Malaysia Airlines plane debris

By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times

In this photo taken on Friday, March 7, 2014, provided by Brian Ho, stunt man Ju Kun, left, poses with John Fusco, creator of the show &quot;Marco Polo&quot; on the back lot of the new Pinewood Studios in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Ju Kun, whose credits include the acclaimed martial arts epic &quot;The Grandmaster,&quot; was among the passengers on the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared early Saturday, March 8, 2014. Ju Kun was scheduled to work on the series pilot for “Marco Polo,” a joint Weinstein Co. and Netflix production, at the studio in Malaysia before he boarded the flight to return home to Beijing. (AP Photo/Brian Ho) NO SALES, NO ARCHIVES, MANDATORY CREDIT, ONE TIME USE ONLY

Chinese film stunt man on missing Malaysia flight

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A Chinese relative of passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane is surrounded by media as she answers questions about how families are being compensated outside a hotel room set aside for relatives or friends of passengers aboard the missing airplane in Beijing, China Tuesday, March 11, 2014. Authorities hunting for the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner expanded their search on land and sea Tuesday, reflecting the difficulties in finding traces of the Boeing 777 more than three days after it vanished with 239 people on board. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Man with stolen passport on missing jet is asylum seeker

By Chris Brummitt and Minh V. Tranh - Associated Press

A Malaysian police officer checks travel documents and passports at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia, Monday, March 10, 2014. Vietnamese aircraft spotted what they suspected was one of the doors of the missing Boeing 777 on Sunday, while questions emerged about how two passengers managed to board the ill-fated aircraft using stolen passports. (AP Photo/Daniel Chan)

Investigators puzzle: How does a 777 jetliner just disappear into thin air?

By Eileen Ng and Jim Gomez - Associated Press

ALTERNATE CROP OF XHG102 A woman cries at the arrival hall of the International Airport in Beijing, China, Saturday, March 8, 2014. Relatives and friends were arriving at Beijing airport for news after a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 was reported missing on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing Saturday. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Air force chief: Malaysia jet may have turned back

By EILEEN NG and CHRIS BRUMMITT - Associated Press

A sign for Freescale Semiconductor is seen in this photo from Austin, Texas on Sunday March 9, 2014. The Austin-based technology company says its 20 employees on board a missing Malaysia Airlines flight were en route to a business meeting in China. Freescale Semiconductor spokeswoman Jacey Zuniga said Sunday that the employees, 12 from Malaysia and eight from China, work at facilities in their respective countries that manufacture semiconductor chips. (AP Photo/John L. Mone)

US-based firm’s workers on plane headed to meeting

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This handout photo provided by the Wood family shows Philip Wood, an IBM executive who had been working in Beijing over the past two years at Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia during July 2013. The family of Wood, who was aboard the Malaysia Airlines flight that went missing over the South China Sea is leaning on their faith as they wait for news about the man they last saw about a week ago, said Woods brother, James Wood. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Wood family)

Family of Texas man on flight comforted by faith

By JOHN L. MONE - Associated Press

ALTERNATE CROP OF XHG102 A woman cries at the arrival hall of the International Airport in Beijing, China, Saturday, March 8, 2014. Relatives and friends were arriving at Beijing airport for news after a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 was reported missing on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing Saturday. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Malaysian air force chief says radar indicates missing Boeing 777 may have turned back

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A woman wipes her tears after walking out of the reception center and holding area for family and friend of passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane, at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Saturday, March 8, 2014. Search teams across Southeast Asia scrambled on Saturday to find a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 with 239 people on board that disappeared from air traffic control screens over waters between Malaysia and Vietnam early that morning. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)

Vietnam air force finds 2 oil slicks suspected to be from missing Malaysian jetliner

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A U.S. Navy helicopter lands aboard Destroyer USS Pinckney during a crew swap before returning to a search and rescue mission for the missing Malaysian airlines flight MH370 in the Gulf of Thailand, Sunday, March 9, 2014. The plane, which was carrying 239 people, lost contact with ground controllers somewhere between Malaysia and Vietnam after leaving Kuala Lumpur early Saturday morning for Beijing. (AP Photo/Navy Media Content Service, Senior Chief Petty Officer Chris D. Boardman)

Vietnam says it may have found door of missing Malaysian jet as intel look into stolen passports

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A woman wipes her tears after walking out of the reception center and holding area for family and friend of passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane, at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Saturday, March 8, 2014. Search teams across Southeast Asia scrambled on Saturday to find a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 with 239 people on board that disappeared from air traffic control screens over waters between Malaysia and Vietnam early that morning. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)

Oil slicks found in hunt for missing Malaysia jet

By EILEEN NG and CHRIS BRUMMITT - Associated Press

Malaysia bans Ultraman book over use of Allah

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