Plane search spreads through Australia-sized zone

Plane search spreads through Australia-sized zone

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Investigators trying to solve the mystery of a missing Malaysian jetliner received some belated help today from Thailand, whose military said it took 10 days to report radar blips that might have been the plane “because we did not pay attention to it.” A coalition of 26 countries, including Thailand, is 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.