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Search for MH370 to be suspended
The search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is to be suspended.
The plane, travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, disappeared in March 2014 with 239 passengers and crew on board.
Search teams from China and Malaysia and led by Australia have been scouring a 120,000 sq km area in the southern Indian Ocean where the plane is believed to have gone down.
They have confirmed that efforts will be suspended once this area has been fully searched, and if no ‘credible new information’ comes to light.
Making a media announcement today, the joint search panel stressed the investigation has not ended.
Relatives say they don’t want the search to end until the plane is found.
So far, the search effort has cost almost US$180 million, the most in aviation history.
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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