Angus Houston

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  Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia to Trial New Jet Tracking System

  Australia today said it was trialling a "world first" system with Malaysia and Indonesia that increases the tracking of aircraft over remote oceans, allowing authorities to quickly react to abnormal situations such as the disappearance of MH370.

• Australia Focuses on Both Malaysian Jet Disasters

  The months-long hunt for the Malaysian airliner that vanished off the Australian coast will not be interrupted by the top search official's new job in recovering bodies from the downed airliner in Ukraine, the Australian government said Wednesday.

• Searchers Undecided Who Will Pay for Airliner Hunt

  Countries searching for the missing Malaysian plane have yet to agree on how to share costs, an Australian search leader said Tuesday.

• Sub searching for missing plane reaches record depths

  The mini-sub searching for missing flight MH370 dived on its fifth seabed mission on Friday, officials said, testing the vehicle's recommended depth limits after failing to find any wreckage.

• Australia sees new search phase if mini-sub fails to find MH370

  The hunt by a mini-submarine for a Malaysian airliner in the uncharted depths of the Indian Ocean - the latest phase in a huge international search - will end in about a week, Australia says.

• Search for missing Malaysia Airlines jet refocuses on drone scans of seafloor

  A deep-sea drone had completed its much-anticipated first full scan of the seabed in the remote Indian Ocean, the team looking for a missing Malaysian jetliner said on Thursday, as an air and surface search became less likely to yield results.

• Mini-sub completes first full mission in hunt for missing Malaysian jet

  A mini-submarine hunting for wreckage of a missing Malaysian airliner has completed its first full mission at the third attempt, officials said on Thursday, as seabed data it retrieved was being analysed.

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  Uncharted depths provide reality check for MH370 hunt

  Hopes that Malaysia's missing jet might soon be found are yielding to the sobering realisation of the immense challenge of searching an uncharted seafloor.

• Robotic submarine deployed in search for missing Malaysia Airlines plane

  Search crews sent a robotic submarine deep into the Indian Ocean on Monday to begin scouring the seabed for the missing Malaysian airliner after failing for six days to detect any signals believed to be from its black boxes.

• New signal spurs search for missing MH370 black boxes

  The logging of a fifth signal spurred on Friday's hunt for missing Malaysian airliner MH370 as search crews work round-the-clock to find elusive wreckage in the southern Indian Ocean.

• Malaysia plane hunt resumes amidst optimism over 'pings'

  The search for a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner resumed on Thursday with a renewed sense of optimism, after Australian officials said they had detected two new "ping" signals that may have come from the plane's black box recorders.

• More pings raise hopes Malaysian plane will be found soon

  The month-long search for the Malaysian jet received a tremendous boost when a navy ship detected 2 more signals that most likely emanated from the aircraft's black boxes.

• Hunt for MH370 'pings' will take days before sub launch

  Ships searching for underwater signals from Flight MH370 have heard no more "pings" and will spend several more days trying to pinpoint a crash site.

• Possible signals from lost Malaysia Airlines jet's black boxes heard

  Underwater sounds detected by a ship searching the southern Indian Ocean for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet are consistent with the pings from aircraft black boxes, an Australian official said Monday, dubbing it "a most promising lead" in the month-long hunt for the vanished plane.

• MH370 searchers detect promising acoustic lead

  An Australian navy ship has detected new underwater signals consistent with aircraft black boxes, the search chief said on Monday, describing it as the "most promising lead" so far in the month-old hunt for missing Flight MH370.