Search for missing flight MH370 to end
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THE hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will end in two weeks, Malaysia said yesterday, after the completion of a search of a 120,000-square- kilometer area where experts thought it went down.
Last month, investigators recommended the search be extended to an area further north in the Indian Ocean, after conceding they were probably looking in the wrong place.
But Malaysia’s transport minister, Liow Tiong Lai, told reporters that there was no “credible clue” to suggest that the search area 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.
“The search mission will end soon and after that,” Liow was quoted as saying by state news agency Bernama.
The report would be made available online, he said, adding: “Any decision based on the report will be done later.”
Flight MH370 disappeared in March 2014 with 239 passengers and crew on board, most of them Chinese, while it was en route to Beijing from the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur.
What happened to the aircraft during the flight has become one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries.
Families of many of those on board have called for the search to continue and to be extended to other areas.
The three countries involved in the search — Malaysia, Australia and China — would be meeting before January 28 to decide on the next course of action, Liow said.
Australia last month also rejected recommendations to extend the search, saying that there was a lack of “credible evidence.”
A total of 33 pieces of wreckage suspected to be from the plane have been found, including parts of wings and a tail, on the shores of Mauritius, the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion, Mozambique, Tanzania and South Africa.
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