Australia says suspended MH370 search could resume in future

Australia said Wednesday it was not ruling out a future underwater search for a missing Malaysia Airlines passenger jet as families of those on board criticised the decision to suspend the hunt after 3 fruitless years. "I don't rule out a future underwater search by any stretch," Australian Transport minister Darren Chester said, a day after Australia, Malaysia and China called off the search in the southern Indian Ocean. A recommendation from investigators last month to look to the north of the 120,000 sq km area that has been the focus of search efforts was rejected by Australia and Malaysia as too imprecise. Chester said cost had not been the determining factor to halt the search, but he said restarting it would require "credible new information which leads to a specific location". <br/>