the search area for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370
will be expanded to include a large new part of the ocean floor, in an
operation that may take eight months to complete, Australia’s Prime Minister
Tony Abbott announced on Monday.
For over two weeks, a US Navy Bluefin 21 submarine has been
scouring the remote Indian Ocean search area off Australia’s west coast for
weeks, but the whereabouts of the aircraft remain unknown since it veered off
course on 8 March.
The unmanned submarine has created a 3D sonar map of the ocean
floor near where signals consistent with aeroplane black boxes were heard on 8
April.
Meanwhile, the six-week-long aerial search for the plane will
officially end on Monday, the search coordination centre confirmed, and the
team will introduce new equipment that can analyse a larger patch of the seabed
for the plane and its missing 239 passengers and crew.
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