‘IT’S A KICK IN THE GUTS’ Hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 jet will end in two weeks without search teams ever finding a single body of the 239 on board
Irate relatives of missing passengers slam decision, demanding search area is extended
THE hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is set to end in two weeks after nearly three years of searching, Malaysia has confirmed. Teams will finally stop looking once they have finished scouring the 9,650 sq mile area where experts thought the doomed flight went down.
Investigators recommended last month that the search be extended by 15,500 sq miles to an area further north in the Indian Ocean, after admitting for the first time they were probably looking in the wrong place. But Malaysia’s transport minister, Liow Tiong Lai, told reporters the hunt would end after the search of the current area in the absence of any “credible clue” suggesting it should be extended. The latest report by the search coordinator, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, was due to be completed in a week or two, he said, with the mission set to end soon after that. “We’re at the final lap within these two weeks,” Liow explained. “We hope we can find the plane.” The minister said the team’s report would be made available online, adding: “Any decision based on the report will be done later.” Flight MH370 disappeared in March 2014 en route to Beijing from the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2552146/hunt-missing-malaysia-airlines-mh370-end-two-weeks/
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Post time 7-1-2017 09:21 AM
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