It is now Day 43 and the seventh Saturday since MAS flight MH370 mysteriously diverted from its Beijing route and vanished without a single trace in the vicinity of the South Indian Ocean on March 8.
9.43am: It's the sixth day since the search effort's Bluefin-21 autonomous underwater vehicle started it’s painstaking search of the sea floor.
The Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) says the underwater drone has covered 133 square kilometres so far, and have found “no contacts of interest”.
The data from its sixth mission was completed overnight, and its seventh voyage into the depths of the Indian Ocean has already begun, said the agency in a statement.
Meanwhile, 11 aircraft and 12 ships will be searching the ocean’s surface for debris today, covering 50,200 square kilometres across three areas.
Recap
The underwater search for MH370 is now focussed on locating the source of the pings detected by the Australian vessel ADV Ocean Shield on April 7 and April 8.
The sounds were detected on four separate occasions in the same area, and analysis has found it to be consistent with underwater locator beacons (or pingers) used on aircraft black boxes.
However, visual verification is still needed confirm whether this location about 1,640 kilometres northwest of Perth is MH370’s final resting place.
The visual search is taking place in different areas to account for ocean drift, but JACC chief Angus Houston had said that further searching of the ocean surface is unlikely to yield any results, and he will have to discuss with search partners about discontinuing it.
In an interview on Monday, he attributed to the lack of surface debris to the fact that the search in the South Indian Ocean had started late.
“I think one of the things about aircraft wreckage on the surface is you've got to find where the aircraft crashed very early on in the search,” he say.
Latest developments
- Underwater search based on previous pings believed to be from a black box continues with no positive discoveries to date
- No positive identification of any debris and no positive indication to pinpoint the exact location of the plane has materialised over the 43-day search
9.43am: It's the sixth day since the search effort's Bluefin-21 autonomous underwater vehicle started it’s painstaking search of the sea floor.The Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) says the underwater drone has covered 133 square kilometres so far, and have found “no contacts of interest”.
The data from its sixth mission was completed overnight, and its seventh voyage into the depths of the Indian Ocean has already begun, said the agency in a statement.
Meanwhile, 11 aircraft and 12 ships will be searching the ocean’s surface for debris today, covering 50,200 square kilometres across three areas.
Recap
The underwater search for MH370 is now focussed on locating the source of the pings detected by the Australian vessel ADV Ocean Shield on April 7 and April 8.
The sounds were detected on four separate occasions in the same area, and analysis has found it to be consistent with underwater locator beacons (or pingers) used on aircraft black boxes.However, visual verification is still needed confirm whether this location about 1,640 kilometres northwest of Perth is MH370’s final resting place.
The visual search is taking place in different areas to account for ocean drift, but JACC chief Angus Houston had said that further searching of the ocean surface is unlikely to yield any results, and he will have to discuss with search partners about discontinuing it.
In an interview on Monday, he attributed to the lack of surface debris to the fact that the search in the South Indian Ocean had started late.
“I think one of the things about aircraft wreckage on the surface is you've got to find where the aircraft crashed very early on in the search,” he say.
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