Authorities are expanding their search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. U.S. officials have said that investigators will start searching the Indian Ocean as they continue searching for the missing aircraft. New information indicated that the plane could have flown several hours beyond the last transponder reading. Several pings from the airliner’s service data system, ACARS, transmitted to satellites in the four to five hours after the last transponder signal, suggesting the plane flew into the Indian Ocean. This information combined with known radar data and knowledge of fuel leads officials to believe the plane could have possibly made it to that ocean, which is the opposite direction of the plane’s original route. Officials claim the plane has a significant likelihood of being on the bottom of the Indian Ocean.
