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• Ships rush to investigate for suspected Malaysian plane crash site in Indian Ocean

  CBS News said that a search and rescue team led by a retired air chief marshall will be checking out one area in the Indian Ocean wherein a Chinese patrol vessel and an Australian boat picked up signals in the frequency the black boxes of the doomed Malaysia Airline Flight 370 plane were transmitting.

• Malaysia order Attorney general to look into legal implications of missing plane

  Malaysian acting Transport Minister Hihammuddin Hussein has said in a news conference on Friday that its government is now looking at the possibility of getting sued for compensation by families of the 239 passengers on board then-missing Malaysia Airline Flight 370, Xinhua News Agency said.

• Information petition on missing Malaysian plane's records a prelude to future litigation

  Chicago-based firm Ribbeck Law Chartered has recently filed a petition to review records of Malaysian Airline System Bhd and Boeing Co about the missing plane on behalf of the estate of one of the plane's passengers, Businessweek said.

• Disappearance of Malaysia plane sheds light on corporate liability

  Bloomberg said that based on the Montreal Convention of 1999, families of the 227 passengers of Malaysian Air Flight 370 could seek over $40 million in damages regardless of the fact that the cause of the incident is unknown.

• Malaysia claims flight simulator files of missing plane pilot deleted

  Malaysia defense minister said in a news conference on Wednesday that its investigators are trying to retrieve deleted data from a flight simulator owned by one of the pilots of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 airplane for leads.

• Probe on missing Malaysia Airline plane focuses on foul play - sources

  Sources have told Reuters that investigators who have been probing the circumstances that lead to the disappearance of the missing Malaysia Arlines plane are now looking into the possibility that an individual deliberately flew the aircraft off from its set course.

• Missing Malaysian plane on its fifth day, authorities still have no clue about whereabouts

  US Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan has said that authorities focused on the missing Malaysian Airline Flight 370 airplane will not discount the possibility that there is an act of terrorism involved in the plane's disappearance.

• Malaysia discounts theory that missing plane was a terrorist attack target - sources

  The Voice of America cited government sources who told Reuters that the terrorist attack theory that could explain the disappearance of Malaysian Airline Flight 370 has been junked based partially on electronic evidence.