MH370 search finds second shipwreck
The search for Malaysia Airlines MH370 in the Indian Ocean has turned up the second centuries-old shipwreck but no sign of the aircraft which disappeared with 239 passengers and crew nearly two years ago. The Australian-led underwater search is expected to be completed by the middle of 2016, having scoured more than half of a planned 120,000 sq km of seafloor, the agency overseeing the effort said, ruling out any expansion of the search without new leads. "In the absence of credible new information that leads to the identification of a specific location of the aircraft, governments have agreed that there will be no further expansion of the search area," Australia's Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) said. A piece of the plane found washed up on the French island of Reunion in July 2015 provided the first direct evidence that the plane had crashed into the sea. No further trace has been found. In May searchers found the wreckage of what was believed to be a 19th century cargo ship and now sonar imagery has identified what is likely to be a second shipwreck, a steel/iron vessel dating from the turn of the 19th Century, according to JACC.<br/>
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MH370 search finds second shipwreck
The search for Malaysia Airlines MH370 in the Indian Ocean has turned up the second centuries-old shipwreck but no sign of the aircraft which disappeared with 239 passengers and crew nearly two years ago. The Australian-led underwater search is expected to be completed by the middle of 2016, having scoured more than half of a planned 120,000 sq km of seafloor, the agency overseeing the effort said, ruling out any expansion of the search without new leads. "In the absence of credible new information that leads to the identification of a specific location of the aircraft, governments have agreed that there will be no further expansion of the search area," Australia's Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) said. A piece of the plane found washed up on the French island of Reunion in July 2015 provided the first direct evidence that the plane had crashed into the sea. No further trace has been found. In May searchers found the wreckage of what was believed to be a 19th century cargo ship and now sonar imagery has identified what is likely to be a second shipwreck, a steel/iron vessel dating from the turn of the 19th Century, according to JACC.<br/>
