M'sia PM calls for changes to prevent another MH370

[KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's prime minister has called for international aviation regulators to implement real-time tracking of airliners to prevent a recurrence of the baffling disappearance of flight MH370, while admitting missteps in the first few days of the crisis.

Writing in The Wall Street Journal yesterday, Najib Razak conceded that a chaotic public message and slow start to search and rescue operations in the early days of the plane's disappearance were a mistake.

But he called for changes that "would make it harder for an aircraft to simply disappear, and easier to find any aircraft that did".