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Have flown up to four hours past its last sighting on radar. 2400 miles in any direction, with enough fuel reach remote islands, even the jingles of thailand, myanmar or eastern ind india. it will take the "uss kidd" several hours to reach one of the new search areas. it also has held costers on board to scour the region, john and marci. >> thank you, brandi. as the investigation moves in new direction, stay with abc news as we uncover all the angles. our coverage continues on "america this morning" and "good morning america." a close call in philadelphia when a us airways flight carrying ...

Sea. up through all the water, out through the satellite. >> reporter: with our sources telling us these communication systems were shut down intentionally, it suggests either a hijacking or pilot suicide. david kerley, abc news, washington. >> we will stay on top of those new developments. another investigation under way, right now this one in philadelphia. problems on the runway forcing a plane carrying 149 passengers to abort takeoff last night. us airways flight 1702 was taking off, bound for ft. lauderdale when its nose gear collapsed. passengers and crew evacuated. there was plumes of ...

The plane came to rest at the south end of philadelphia international airport. all the passengers were taken by bus to the terminal at this point. they are being debriefed. right now the runway is complossed but the air stoppage has been lifted. planes are taking off and landing from philadelphia international. but a very very scary afternoon for some of these passengers aboard flight 1702. you see the remnants of that right now. that plane coming to rest on the runway here at philadelphia international airport. greta? >> chris, is it a blown tire or did the landing gear, under the nose, did t...

>> reporter: like you mentioned some very tense moments at philadelphia international airport. here is what we know from authorities. u.s. airways flight 1702 was headed to ft. lauderdale from philadelphia. and an airline spokesperson tells cnn the tire of the airbus a 320 blew on takeoff. we're getting some conflicting reports here because the philadelphia airport tweeted out that nose gear of the plane collapsed. we're also getting that same information from the faa that reportedly there was some nose gear collapse. but we do know that 149 passengers were on board. they were evacuated onto t...

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