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                     Search for Missing Jet Again Fruitless

   Sunday was another fruitless day in the search for the missing
   Malaysian passenger jet.
   Searchers on nine planes and eight ships scoured a large swath of the
   Indian Ocean west of Australia and again found some debris floating on
   the surface. But Australian authorities said it turned out to be
   "fishing equipment and other flotsam."
   The search for the missing Boeing 777 jet is in its fourth week, but
   searchers have yet to identify any ocean-borne debris as connected to
   the aircraft.
   More ships are on the way to the search area, including an Australian
   naval vessel, the Ocean Shield, which is equipped with sophisticated
   U.S. equipment to try to detect pings from the plane`s data recorder.
   It will take a few days for the Ocean Shield to arrive at the location
   where officials say Flight 370 may have gone down on March 8.
   Meanwhile, dozens of angry Chinese relatives of missing passengers
   arrived in Kuala Lumpur Sunday, demanding more information about what
   happened to the aircraft, accusing Malaysian officials of withholding
   vital information. About two-thirds of the people on board the jet were
   Chinese.
   The search shifted more than 1,000 kilometers northeast Friday when
   investigators determined the plane flew faster and burned fuel more
   quickly than previously estimated. This means the jet did not fly as
   far as first thought.
   The jet disappeared thousands of kilometers west of its intended flight
   path from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
   Officials believe the aircraft crashed into the southern Indian Ocean
   far from land. They have not ruled out any cause, including terrorism
   or a hijacking.
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