Search Area for Flight 370 Expanded After New Clues

 By 
Stan Schroeder
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Search Area for Flight 370 Expanded After New Clues
In this Thursday, March 27, 2014, file photo, Sgt. Matthew Falanga, an airborne electronics analyst, observes a radar image aboard a Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion aircraft during a search operation of the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 over the southern Indian Ocean. Credit: AP Photo/Michael Martina, Pool, File

The search area rescuers are combing in the hunt for Malaysia Airlines flight 370 shifted several hundred miles on Friday to an area northeast of the original search corridor.

Radar tracking information suggested that the jetliner flew faster and burned fuel more quickly than authorities originally thought.

Shortly after the search was shifted, a New Zealand military plane found objects floating in the Indian Ocean that could be from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370. Authorities say a ship will reach the search area by Saturday to investigate the objects and determine if they are, in fact, from the missing Boeing 777.

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