Malaysian Flight MH370 search would continue indefinitely, Australia’s deputy prime minister Warren Truss said on Saturday.
Malaysian Flight MH370 search would continue indefinitely, Australia's deputy prime minister Warren Truss said on Saturday.
"We will continue to liaise with our international allies but at this stage we are planning to continue indefinitely, although I recognize that there will come a time that when nothing is discovered a further appraisal will have to be made," Truss said.
Australian authorities searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have released satellite images of two objects seen floating in the southern Indian Ocean.
Australia's Defense Imagery and Geospatial Organization said that the larger of the objects could measure up to 24m long.
But Australia's Maritime Safety Authority, which is coordinating the hunting, said that the object were located in a busy shipping area and may not be from the missing jet.
Expert spotters are now scanning the waters of the southern Indian Ocean relying mostly on binoculars and the human eye to locate the jet, AFP reported.
In addition, a merchant ship steamed into the search zone late Friday while a Norwegian merchant ship is participating in searching for the Malaysian jet.
"The search so far is being done from the deck of the ship itself," Olav Sollie from the shipping company that owns the Norwegian boat told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, adding that this is natural since the ship is 25 meters high, so from the top deck it is possible to have a very good an long.
Cockpit Communication Transcript Revealed
The Telegraph newspaper published on Friday a transcript of conversations between the co-pilot and the control tower.
Twelve minutes after the cockpit informed that the airplane was remaining at 35,000 feet, the Malaysian air traffic controllers advised that the plane should switch to new frequency controlled by Vietnamese air traffic controllers since the plane had approached Vietnam.
The co-pilot, Fariq Abdul Hamid, replied by saying: "All right, good night" which was the final known communication.
It is noteworthy that the Malaysian airplane vanished with 239 people on board after leaving Kuala Lumpur on 8 March.
