Morse to his credit emphasized that the company was still executing on its overall plan, and beat Wall Street expectations in the quarter, and is seeing bright spots in areas such as video, Yahoo Mail and News and its new publishing platform.
The crew of a TAM Linhas Aereas flight travelling over the area in the other direction shortly after the Airbus' last signal had reported seeing "bright spots" in the ocean about 1, 300 km (800 miles) from the Fernando de Noronha archipelago off Brazil's north-eastern coast.