Experts search for lost plane in Laos

Teams of French and Thai experts plied the vast and muddy Mekong River with high-tech sonar equipment today, ramping up the search for a Lao Airlines plane, 19 bodies still missing from the crash and clues to why the aircraft went down three days earlier.

On the riverbank, a group of orange-robed Buddhist monks performed a prayer ceremony for the 30 victims whose bodies have been recovered and those still missing.