Underwater vehicle to take a closer look at objects found in search for MH370
Sydney — Investigators will deploy an underwater vehicle to take a closer look at objects found during a sonar survey of the southern Indian Ocean in the hunt for MH370, Australia said on Wednesday, as it extended the search into next year. Malaysia Airlines MH370, a Boeing 777, disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8 2014 carrying 239 passengers and crew. Despite an extensive underwater search far off Western Australia’s coast where investigators believe the plane crashed, no trace has been found there, although objects not linked to it such as shipping containers have been discovered. Investigators have confirmed that three pieces of debris recovered along western Indian Ocean shorelines belong to MH370. Other so-called sonar contacts found in the investigation did not "exhibit the characteristics of a typical aircraft debris field" but some had "manmade properties" and needed to be eliminated as from MH370, the government agency leading the search, the Austra...
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