Search and recovery effort for the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 could soon come to an end with search fleet reportedly a matter of days away to finally locating the ill-fated jetliner.
After seven months of massive searching across the Indian and Pacific Ocean, searchers are increasingly confident they are now in the cusp of solving one of aviation greatest mysteries.
According to the Daily Mail, three search vessels contracted for the latest phase of search and recovery mission for MH370 will start their mission on Sunday at the spot believed to be the final resting place of the plane - about 1,500 kilometres off the Western Australian coast.
The vessels are reportedly equipped with high-tech sonar and video cameras and a long fibre optic cable that allowed the team to picture out the ocean seafloor at a very high resolution. A satellite dish is also mounted on each vessel, allowing the searchers to upload data at real time.
"They're towed by a 10,000 metre long fibre optic cable to the sea floor and can scour the sea floor very, very carefully and survey in great detail at high resolution," Fugro Survey project director Paul Kennedy told Washington Today.
"So the areas we search we know 100 percent that if we run over an airplane we'll know for sure. The search up to this weekend has been looking at it [the ocean floor] from several kilometres away, which gives you a rough idea of the features, but you can't see it in any real detail."
Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 disappeared along with 239 people onboard last March 8 during its flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing, China. Several countries - including super powers United States and United Kingdom - joined the search and rescue operations and then search and retrieval missions for the missing plane but after a massive search in South China Sea, Gulf of Thailand and 1,500 nautical miles off the coast of Perth, no significant traces of the plane have been found.
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