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The search goes on ... A briefing aboard the survey ship Go Phoenix searching for the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 which disappeared on March 8, with 227 passengers and 12 crew members. Picture: Twitter Source: Twitter
APPROXIMATELY 20 per cent of the high probability search area for Malysia Airlines Flight MH370 has now been scoured without any trace of the Boeing 777 being found.
The latest update from the Joint Agency Coordination Centre and the Australian Transport Safety Bureau says 11,000 square kilometres of ocean bed has now been searched, out of a total of about 56,000 square kilometres.
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Nothing found to date ... The search area in the southern Indian Ocean. Source: Supplied
The work along the seventh arc in the southern Indian Ocean will continue “uninterrupted†over Christmas, and is expected to be completed around May providing there are no significant delays with vessels, equipment or weather.
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Believes the plane will be found ... Peter Foley, Program Director, Operational Search for MH370, at ATSB headquarters in Canberra. Source: News Corp Australia
“The Australian Government remains committed to the MH370 search,†notes the update.
It is now more than nine months since the Malaysia Airlines scheduled international passenger flight diverted from its Kuala Lumpur to Beijing route and vanished from radar screens.
There were 239 people on board including six Australians.
Just wants something to be found ... Danica Weeks' husband Paul, pictured with their young children Lincoln and Jack, was on the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 — one of six Australians on board. Source: News Corp Australia
Theories abound as to what happened to the aircraft but authorities are refusing to speculate.
It is hoped the discovery of the wreckage including the flight recorder and black box will provide answers to grieving families.
The last message received by air traffic control was over the South China Sea, less than an hour after takeoff from Kuala Lumpur International Airport. It was last plotted by military radar flying over the Andaman Sea, 320km northwest of Penang state in Malaysia, 55 minutes later.