An international search-and-rescue operation to locate the remains of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is narrowing its search area and expects to find the plane by June 2016, Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss said Thursday.
Australia is leading an international search for the passenger jet, which vanished in March 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Of the 239 people on board, six were Australian nationals.
"We think that the search of all 120,000 square kilometers [over 46,000 square miles], the search area, is likely to take until about June of the next year," Truss said at a press conference.
The deputy prime minister said that Australian ships had yet to examine the remaining 44,000 square kilometers of the search area, and that the Australian authorities "are optimistic and hopeful that the search will result in locating the aircraft."
Truss was hoping that it would be possible to recover data from the airliner’s black box if it could be found.
The Australian-led international search-and-rescue operation has already covered some 76,000 square kilometers of the search area – more than 60 percent of the entire target.
In August, a fragment of the aircraft wing was found on the French Island of La Reunion in the Indian Ocean, which helped to narrow the search area.
(Sputnik)
3/12/15
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ReplyDeleteAustralian authorities have said on Thursday that new analysis confirms they’ve likely been searching in the right place for the ill-fated missing Malaysian airliner.
Searchers have been combing a 120,000-square-kilometer (46,000-square-mile) part of the Indian Ocean since last year but have yet to turn up any trace of Flight 370. A wing flap was found in July on the other side of the Indian Ocean, washed up on remote Reunion Island.
The new analysis by an agency of the Defense Department confirmed “the highest probability” the final resting place for the plane is within the current search area, the government said in a statement........AP......alarabiya.net
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