The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is likely to drag on for years, a senior US defence official told Reuters on Friday, as an underwater search for any trace of the plane's wreckage off west Australia appeared to have failed
The seabed search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet is set to widen as a sonar scan of the most likely crash site deep beneath the Indian Ocean nears completion without yielding a single clue, authorities said Friday.
Debris picked up on a beach in Western Australia this week is unlikely to have come from the Malaysian Airlines jet, Australia's transport bureau said.
Planned air search activities had been suspended for Tuesday due to poor weather conditions in the search area as a result of Tropical Cyclone Jack.
An underwater robotic submarine is expected to finish searching a narrowed down area of the Indian Ocean seabed for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane within the next week.
The agonizing search for the vanished MH370 and its equally confounding black box is now reaching into seemingly inaccessible depths, with the best technologies reaching their limit.
The search area for the missing Malaysian jet has proved too deep for a robotic submarine which was hauled back to the surface of the Indian Ocean less than half way.
The Australian and US searchers hunting for the missing Malaysian flight MH370 on Monday confirmed the underwater autonomous vehicle would be deployed "very soon".
An Australian official said crews will send the Bluefin-21 drone into the Indian Ocean for the first time to look for the plane on the sea floor.
Australian officials leading the search for a missing Malaysia Airlines are weighing when to deploy an underwater robot to aid in the hunt.
The hunt for the missing Malaysian jet continued to focus on a search for weakening radio signals from deep beneath the waves despite mounting evidence that the black boxes' batteries may finally have died.
After four strong underwater signals, all has gone quiet in the hunt for MH370, indicating the batteries on the black boxes may have died.
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