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Topic: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

A crew member aboard a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) AP-3C Orion uses binoculars as it flies over the southern Indian Ocean during the search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. (Reuters/Rob Griffith)

MH370 Search Over

Charlie May, Kristen Gelineau
A family member of a passenger aboard Malaysia Airlines MH370 cries after watching a television broadcast of a news conference, at the Lido hotel in Beijing March 24, 2014. (Reuters/Jason Lee)

The "end" of MH370?

Andrew Leonard
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Katie McDonough
Chinese satellites have spotted the new object in the southern Indian Ocean that could be wreckage from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 carrying 239 people, and ships are on their way to investigate. (Reuters)

Scott McDonald, Rob Griffith
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A young Malaysian boy prays, at an event for the missing Malaysia Airline, MH370, at a shopping mall, in Petaling Jaya, on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. A coalition of 26 countries, including Thailand, are looking for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which vanished March 8 with 239 people aboard on a night flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Search crews are scouring two giant arcs of territory amounting to the size of Australia — half of it in the remote seas of the southern Indian Ocean. (AP Photo/Joshua Paul) (AP)

Sarah Gray
Crew members on board aircraft P-8A Poseidon assist in search and rescue operations for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in the Indian Ocean, March 16, 2014. (AP/Eric A. Pastor)

When technology fails

Andrew Leonard
(Reuters/Damir Sagolj)

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Daniel D'Addario
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Lost Malaysian airplane update

Elias Isquith
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