Underwater search for MH370 jet resumes
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THE hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 entered a new phase yesterday with the resumption of the underwater search for the aircraft, officials said.
Until now experts had been concentrating on mapping the seabed in the southern Indian Ocean search zone where the plane carrying 239 people is thought to have crashed in March.
The Malaysian-contracted GO Phoenix vessel has now arrived in the area and begun its work scanning the ocean floor for the jet, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said. “The vessel GO Phoenix, with equipment and experts provided by Phoenix International, has arrived in the search area in the southern Indian Ocean, and commenced underwater search operations,” it said.
Australia has been spearheading the hunt for the jet which is believed to have hit the ocean after mysteriously diverting off-course from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and running out of fuel. The search for MH370 has been frustrated by a lack of solid data about the jet’s final hours and the vast and largely unexplored area in which it is said to have crashed.
After massive air and sea surface searches failed to locate any sign of the Boeing 777-200, and an undersea probe also came up empty-handed, experts analyzed satellite transmissions from the plane to pinpoint the best area to search for the plane.
Australian authorities have said they are “cautiously optimistic” that the plane will be located in the refined search zone, although the process could take up to a year.
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