Have MH370 hunters been looking in the wrong place for 2 years?
As investigators prepare to concede defeat in their search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, some scientists are pondering the unthinkable: they’ve been looking in the wrong place for more than 2 years. Ships scouring an almost endless expanse of southern Indian Ocean have turned up nothing of the jet. With no closure in sight, transport ministers from Malaysia, China and Australia meet Thursday in Kuala Lumpur to assess the US$135m operation. There are no plans to look beyond the designated 120,000 square kilometres, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said. More than 90% of the search area has already been covered. The absence of wreckage in the search area to date may question one of the recovery mission’s central assumptions -- that no one was in control of the plane when it ran out of fuel. <br/>
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Have MH370 hunters been looking in the wrong place for 2 years?
As investigators prepare to concede defeat in their search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, some scientists are pondering the unthinkable: they’ve been looking in the wrong place for more than 2 years. Ships scouring an almost endless expanse of southern Indian Ocean have turned up nothing of the jet. With no closure in sight, transport ministers from Malaysia, China and Australia meet Thursday in Kuala Lumpur to assess the US$135m operation. There are no plans to look beyond the designated 120,000 square kilometres, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said. More than 90% of the search area has already been covered. The absence of wreckage in the search area to date may question one of the recovery mission’s central assumptions -- that no one was in control of the plane when it ran out of fuel. <br/>
