Australia warns that MH370 may not be found during final search
Last vessel searching for the airline has leaves on its final sweep of the southern Indian Ocean, but transport minister says it might not be found in coming weeks
Sydney — The last vessel searching for missing MH370 has left on its final sweep across the southern Indian Ocean, Australia said Wednesday, as the transport minister cautioned the airliner might not be found in coming weeks. Fugro Equator sailed from Fremantle port on Australia’s western coast on Monday for the 120,000km² zone where investigators believe the Malaysian Airlines jet disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8 2014, carrying 239 passengers and crew. No trace has been found in the massive undersea hunt off Australia but investigators have confirmed that three pieces of debris recovered on western Indian Ocean shorelines came from MH370. "It has been an heroic undertaking but we have to prepare ourselves for the prospect that we may not find MH370 in the coming weeks, although we remain hopeful," Transport Minister Darren Chester told The West Australian on Tuesday. The newspaper added that the ship’s final hunt would involve examining about 200 small a...
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