MH370 Search: Visualization of the Indian Ocean Floor 0:42
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As the search for Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 continues, Australian officials have released a topographic visualization of the search area at the bottom of the Indian Ocean.
- WSJ Live
- 13 Dec 2014
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A NEW report on the investigation into the disappearance of MH370 will be released on the eve of the one year anniversary of the doomed flight.
Malaysia’s Department of Civil Aviation will release the report on its website on March 7, focusing on the investigation to date.
Malaysia Airlines’ flight MH370 vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014 with 239 passengers and crew on board, including six Australians.
Malaysia’s Deputy Transport Minister Datuk Aziz Kaprawi refused to say whether the report would shed any further light on what may have occurred during the flight.
“We have not concluded on the status of the plane, as the search is still ongoing,” Mr Aziz told reporters in Kuala Lumpur.
In the hunt ... MH370 search vessel Go Phoenix being resupplied in Fremantle to continue the search for missing Malaysian Airline plane. Pic: Supplied Source: Supplied
Mr Aziz was opening a Southeast Asia Regional Aviation Security Workshop to discuss strengthening passenger and baggag screening procedures.
Flight MH370 last made contact with air traffic control at 1.19am on March 8, less than an hour after takeoff.
A couple of minutes later it disappeared from radar screens and was never heard from again.
All investigators have had to go on in the search for the Boeing 777, is a series of satellite handshakes or pings transmitted from the aircraft.
They have led searchers to believe the plane diverted south, and then flew for around seven hours to the southern Indian Ocean where it crashed after running out of fuel.
An intensive search of a 60,000 square kilometre “priority” zone has so far failed to find any trace of the Boeing 777.
About all searchers have found so far — an image of the search area released by the ATSB. Pic: Supplied. Source: Supplied
The latest update from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau revealed 18,000 square kilometres has now been scoured — or 30 per cent of the search area.
Underwater scans of the entire zone are expected to be finished by May, at which time authorities will decide whether to continue in another area.
Malaysia’s Defence Minister being updated on search for MH370. Pic: Twitter Source: Twitter
Last week, the ATSB called for tenders for the recovery of the aircraft — in order to be prepared should it be found.
No debris has ever been discovered although investigators believe it will eventually wash up on the shores of Sumatra in Indonesia.
The cost of the $60 million search is being shared by the Australian and Malaysian governments.
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