Malaysia expands search for missing MAS jet

Kuala Lumpur

MALAYSIA is expanding the search for a missing passenger jet further east into the South China Sea and further west into the Indian Ocean after a multi-nation week-long search did not turn up any leads on the fate of Malaysia Airlines MH370.

"A normal investigation becomes narrower with time, as new information focuses the search," Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. "But this is not a normal investigation. In this case, the information we have forces us to look further and further afield."