Flight 370 search update reports that the search for the Malaysia Airlines missing planes have now moved to a new location. According to the new Flight 370 search update, the fresh location aims to finally solve one of the most difficult mysteries in aviation history.
The Associated Press reports that the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 will now be focusing on what lies underwater. The new Flight 370 search update reveals that the new search area will most likely be in an area nearly as big as West Virginia.
According to USA Today, on Wednesday the latest Flight 370 search update is that the U.S. Navy's Bluefin 21 has just completed its last underwater mission. The mission involved searching near an area where acoustic signals have been heard. The signals were what experts believed to have been emitted from the missing jet's data recorders. According to the Australian-based Joint Agency Coordination Center, the signals were picked up in April.
The JACC has said in a statement, "The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has advised that the search in the vicinity of the acoustic detections can now be considered complete, and in its professional judgment, the area can now be discounted as the final resting place of MH370.''
Flight 370 search update is that now, experts will be working on determining an underwater search area of up to 21,600 square miles along the arc in the southern Indian Ocean, and an underwater survey of the ocean floor will map the terrain.
The JACC said, "Knowing the seafloor terrain is crucial to enabling the subsequent underwater search.'' According to the AP, it will still be roughly three months before an intensified search in the new location can begin. It could be a year before the underwater search ends and answers emerge.
Chief Commissioner Martin Dolan of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said of the Flight 370 search update, "The search will be a major undertaking." The Bureau had reportedly been assisting the Malaysian government in the previous searches. They said in a statement posted on Monday, "The complexities and challenges involved are immense but not impossible. The best minds from around the world have been reviewing, refining and (localizing) the most likely area where the aircraft entered the water, which is why we remain confident of finding the aircraft.''
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared on March 8 en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur. It had 227 passengers and 12 crewmembers on board when it mysteriously disappeared and lost communication with control tower. One of the most extensive aircraft searches in history has been launched to find the missing plane. Investigators from various countries joined the launch of the search.
Before this new Flight 370 search update, the focus of the search in recent weeks has been on the southern Indian Ocean. However, there was no trace found of the vanished jet.
CNN said that the search on the ocean floor was reportedly started by a Chinese ship, and it will be joined by another vessel in June. The new Flight 370 search update of the underwater search may likely begin in August. Reports say that the commercial side-scan sonar operators will be scouring the ocean floor for the missing Boeing 777 and any of its debris.
Aviation Analyst Robert Mann at R.W. Mann in Port Washington, N.Y. said that he feels that the jet will be found. However, it may not be found by those who are trying so hard at finding it. He said, "I think it'll be found, there's no question about that. It's just a matter of time. Ultimately, it may not be found by the people who are looking for it. It may be found as a byproduct of some other activity going on. That's the unfortunate part. I think the directed search, given the best efforts of those involved, is no more or less likely to find it than it was the other day.''
Flight 370 search update had U.S. Navy spokesman Chris Johnson dismissing comments made to CNN by ocean engineering expert Michael Dean. Dean said that the acoustic "pings" heard in the area in April did not come from the missing airliner's black boxes and that those sounds came from another source not connected to the jet. Johnson said in a statement, "Mike Dean's comments today were speculative and premature."
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