Underwater search for missing Malaysian flight ends without a trace
Source: Reuters
WORLD NEWS | Tue Jan 17, 2017 | 10:12am EST
Underwater search for missing Malaysian flight ends without a trace
By Tom Westbrook and Jonathan Barrett | SYDNEY
The deep-sea search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 ended on Tuesday without any trace being found of the plane that vanished in 2014 with 239 people on board, the three countries involved in the search said.
The location of Flight MH370 has become one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries since the plane, a Boeing 777, disappeared en route to Beijing from the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur.
"Despite every effort using the best science available ... the search has not been able to locate the aircraft," Malaysian, Australian and Chinese authorities said in a statement.
"The decision to suspend the underwater search has not been taken lightly nor without sadness."
The last search vessel left the area on Tuesday, the three countries said, after scouring the 120,000-sq-km (46,000-sq-mile) area of the Indian Ocean sea floor that has been the focus of the almost-three-year search.
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