Transport Minister Anthony Loke said it would be published in the near future, without giving a date. Malaysia's new government, meanwhile, promised to release its long-awaited report into the plane's disappearance. McCormack said fresh searches may one day be launched if new technologies emerge, but doubted Australia will take part in any new search efforts "at this stage." He described the four-year search as the largest in aviation history, which had tested the limits of technology as well as the capacity of experts and those working at sea. Read more: End of search for Malaysia Airlines plane MH370 - 'We still need answers'Īustralia's Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack said on Tuesday he is holding out hope that the aircraft may one day be found. The original search focused on the South China Sea, before analysis revealed the Boeing 777 had made an unexpected turn west and then south.Īustralia then coordinated an official search on Malaysia's behalf that scoured 120,000 square kilometers (46,000 square miles) and cost $150 million, before it ended last January. Investigators have had little to go on except for traces of data that the plane left on satellite and radar, and a few pieces of wreckage that have washed up on Indian Ocean islands. Others include the remote hacking of the plane, a terrorist hijacking, that it ran out of fuel, or was shot down by an unknown military organization.
Several theories have emerged about MH370's fate, including a possible murder-suicide plot by pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shad, which was ruled out by investigators. Read more: MH370 report: Missing plane mystery 'unacceptable' All 239 people on board are presumed dead. Four years on, very few details are known about what became of the plane or those on board. The contract, which guaranteed Ocean Infinity $70 million (€61 million) if it found the wreckage or the black boxes, was extended twice.įlight MH370 disappeared in March 2014 during a routine flight between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing. In January, the firm signed a 90-day "no find, no fee" deal with the Malaysian government to resume the hunt for the missing aircraft, a year after the official search was called off. Oliver Plunkett, Ocean Infinity's chief executive, said the failure to find any sign of the plane was "extremely disappointing." overcoming both challenging conditions and terrain," but without success. Texas-based Ocean Infinity said in a statement it had "searched and collected high-quality data from over 112,000 square kilometers of ocean floor. Just 39 minutes into its journey on March 8, 2014, from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, the plane lost contact with Malaysia Airlines and crashed at an unknown location killing all 239 people on board. Efforts to locate the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 drew to a close in the remote Indian Ocean on Tuesday, after a private company, hired to extend the search, admitted it had found no trace of the aircraft. THE disappearance of flight MH370 is one of aviation's greatest mysteries and has led to a number of theories.
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