Ministers from Australia, Malaysia and China reportedly met in Kuala Lumpur to discuss the future of the search operation that has been on for two years now. Approximately $137 million (Rs 912 crore) has been spent on the search till now, making it the most expensive hunt in aviation history. Till date, no concrete evidence from MH370 has been found.
The airline's mail said, "in the absence of credible new evidence leading to the identification of a specific location of the aircraft," the search would not end, but will be suspended once the team completes investigating a 1,20,000 sq km area of the southern Indian Ocean off western Australia later this year. The search was initially scheduled to end in June but was hampered by inclement weather. It is now expected to be completed by October, reported Reuters.
On Thursday, Dutch company Fugro, which has been searching for debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, said it is likely they have been looking in the wrong part of the Indian Ocean for the past two years. Investigators led by the engineering group Fugro now believe the flight might have glided down, rather than dived in the final moments before the crash, and gone beyond the area chalked out according to calculations based on satellite images.
Flight MH370, which was flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, disappeared on March 8, 2014, with 239 passengers and crew members on board.
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