Deep-sea search vessels head to MH370 site
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The first boat being used in a deep-sea search for the missing flight MH370 has now set off for the southern Indian Ocean.
The Malaysian-contracted GO Phoenix vessel left Singapore on 9 September and will team up with the search effort, being coordinated by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB).
Bloomberg reported the ATSB’s chief commissioner, Martin Dolan, as saying that the Malaysian vessel, along with Dutch contractors, will operate in a 60,000m² search area, which is believed to be where the Malaysia Airlines jet crashed into the sea.
“We know the first place we’ll be searching and we’ll be formalizing the tasking for that within the next few days,” Dolan was quoted saying.
A major survey of the ocean floor has been completed, preparing the charts for the underwater search, which could take up to a year to complete.
Flight MH370 disappeared from radar screens on 8 March 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Despite exhaustive search efforts, there has been no sign of the aircraft or its passengers.
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