Malaysia Hires US Firm to Search for Missing Flight MH370

Malaysia Hires US Firm to Search for Missing Flight MH370
A Malaysia Airlines plane (below) prepares to go onto the runway and pass by a stationary Chinese Ilyushin 76 aircraft (top) at Perth International Airport on March 25, 2014. Greg Wood/AFP/Getty Images
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Malaysia has hired a Houston-based search company took look for the wreckage of Malaysia Air Flight 370, which disappeared mysteriously March 8, 2014.

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, a Boeing 777 carrying 227 and 12 crew from the capital, Kuala Lumpur, to Beijing disappeared somewhere over the Indian Ocean.  The flight disappeared from radar shortly after leaving Malaysia. Data analysis shows the plane flew about another six hours before crashing into the sea.