Search Area For Missing Malaysia Airlines Plane Could Double

    (Greg Wood/Pool Photo via AP)
    (Greg Wood/Pool Photo via AP)

    The search may be expanded for the Malaysia Airlines plane that vanished last year.

    FOX News Radio’s Simon Owen has an update:

    Search teams are still scouring a 23,000 sq. mile area of the Indian Ocean. But with no trace of the plane yet — officials making plans for what comes next:

    (Truss) “In the event that we cannot find the aircraft, the commitment has then been made to extend the search over a further 60,000 sq km.”

    The Australian Transport Minister Warren Truss confirming the search zone will be doubled – extending the search operation potentially until the end of the year at a cost of some $39 million.

    In London, Simon Owen, FOX News Radio.