'Missing jet may have disintegrated in mid-air'

March 10, 2014 10:50

Search and rescue planes scoured waters off the southern tip of Vietnam on Monday, searching for any trace of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner 48 hours after it vanished from radar screens with 239 people on board.

On Sunday, a senior source said officials investigating the disappearance the plane suspect it may have disintegrated in mid-flight, asVietnam reported that a navy plane had spotted a rectangle object in the sea suspected to be one of the doors of the Boeing 777-200ER, but that it was too dark to be certain. -- Reuters

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