Investigators say an oil slick in the South China Sea is not from the missing Malaysian Airlines flight.

Investigators in Laos have picked up underwater signals that they believe are coming from the black box of a passenger plane that crashed into the Mekong River last week.

Rescuers in fishing boats pulled bodies from the muddy Mekong River in Laos after a plane crashed in stormy weather, killing 49 people from 11 countries.

THAI authorities probing a plane crash that killed 89 people in Phuket discovered yesterday that a system designed to check for dangerous winds was not fully working, an official said.