Chinese ship in MH370 search on its way home
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A SEABED search for a missing Malaysian airliner has been left to a single ship, with a Chinese vessel heading home, officials said yesterday.
Dutch survey ship Fugro Equator will finish the search of the southern Indian Ocean for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said in a statement.
Chinese ship Dong Hai Jiu 101 finished searching the 120,000-square-kilometer expanse last weekend and was headed back to the Australian port of Fremantle to drop off equipment before returning to Shanghai, the statement said.
In February, it joined three search vessels operated by Dutch underwater survey company Fugro in the hunt for the Boeing 777 with 239 people on board believed to have crashed far off the southwest coast of Australia on March 8, 2014.
Fugro Equator is expected to finish the search by February. The ship is using a highly maneuverable drone known as an autonomous underwater vehicle to get sonar images of difficult terrain.
A group of victims’ relatives traveled to Madagascar off the southeast coast of Africa this week to offer rewards to anyone finding debris.
A Malaysian official investigating the disappearance visited Madagascar’s capital, Antananarivo, to pick up debris already found and it will be analyzed to see if it came from the aircraft.
Confirmation the plane crashed came last year when a wing part washed ashore on Reunion Island in the western Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar. Authorities have offered no explanation as to why the plane flew off course during its flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing.
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