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Search for MH370 to be called off in June
May 6th 2016
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) on Thursday confirmed that the underwater search for missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft MH370 will be terminated on June 30. Read More » "In the absence of credible new information that leads to the identification of a specific location of the aircraft, governments have agreed that there will be no further expansion of the search area," an ATSB spokesperson said.
Until then, search crews from three vessels involved in the operation still have approximately 6,000 square miles of Indian Ocean seabed to cover. So far, the search has cost more than $100 million, the largest sum ever spent on wreckage recovery.
Debris confirmed as part of MH370 has washed up in Reunion Island and off the coast of Mozambique, but the findings have shed no clue on the final resting place of the B777’s fuselage.
Qatar Airways CEO, Akbar Al Baker, has criticised the decision. “It's very concerning that the international community, for monetary purposes, is going to abandon the search for this aeroplane," he said. MH370 vanished on March 8, 2014, on a routine flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. All 298 passengers and crew are missing.
