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Ship sets out on last-ditch MH370 search
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A LONE survey vessel has left an Australian port for perhaps the final time to search for the Malaysian airliner that mysteriously crashed into the southern Indian Ocean two years ago, officials said yesterday.
The Dutch survey ship Fugro Equator left Fremantle on Monday night to continue the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 alone, Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Darren Chester’s office said.
Whether the voyage is the ship’s final monthlong deployment from Fremantle before the search was completed after more than two years would depend on the weather, Chester’s office said.
Chester thanked China for the services of a Chinese ship that in February joined the search of a 120,000-square-kilometer area where authorities calculate that the Boeing 777 crashed with 239 people aboard on March 8, 2014.
Fugro Equator is using an autonomous underwater vehicle to get sonar images of difficult terrain that could not be reliably searched with towed sonar equipment.
The search has failed to find any trace of the airliner.
The plane disappeared during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
But debris has washed ashore on the western Indian Ocean at Reunion Island, Mozambique, Tanzania, Madagascar and Mauritius.
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