Hopes fade of finding the final resting place of doomed flight MH370
PUTRAJAYA — Hopes of finding flight MH370’s final resting place are "fading" and the massive three-nation search for the doomed aircraft will be suspended if nothing is found in the suspected crash zone, Malaysia, Australia and China said Friday.With the designated search area due to be fully scanned within weeks, transport ministers from the three countries made their announcement after holding talks on the future of the unprecedented deep-sea hunt for the Malaysia Airlines passenger aircraft."With less than 10,000km² of the high-priority search area remaining to be searched, ministers acknowledged that despite the best efforts of all involved the likelihood of finding the aircraft is fading," the countries’ officials said in a joint statement after the meeting in Malaysia’s administrative capital Putrajaya.Unless "credible new evidence" turns up by the time the current operations are completed, "the search would not end, but be suspended" until solid new information pointing to a ...
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