Malaysia Airlines 777 Flight MH370 - Missing - March 7, 2014

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http://jacc.gov.au/media/communiques/2017/com005.aspx

Joint Communiqué
17 January 2017

Today the last search vessel has left the underwater search area. Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has not been located in the 120,000 square-kilometre underwater search area in the southern Indian Ocean.

Despite every effort using the best science available, cutting edge technology, as well as modelling and advice from highly skilled professionals who are the best in their field, unfortunately, the search has not been able to locate the aircraft.
 Accordingly, the underwater search for MH370 has been suspended.

The decision to suspend the underwater search has not been taken lightly nor without sadness. It is consistent with decisions made by our three countries in the July 2016 Ministerial Tripartite meeting in Putrajaya Malaysia.
 
Whilst combined scientific studies have continued to refine areas of probability, to date no new information has been discovered to determine the specific location of the aircraft.
 

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http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/2076099/mh370-families-refuse-give-hope-instead-launch-campaign

MH370 families refuse to give up hope, instead launch campaign to fund search for the missing jet
PUBLISHED : Saturday, 04 March, 2017, 8:52pm
UPDATED : Saturday, 04 March, 2017, 9:28pm

Families of passengers on board missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have launched a campaign to privately fund a search for the aircraft.

Flight MH370, carrying 239 people – more than half of whom were Chinese nationals – went missing on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, nearly three years ago, on March 8, 2014. Australia, Malaysia, and China jointly called off a two-year underwater search for the aircraft in January.

Grace Nathan, a Malaysian lawyer whose mother, Anne Daisy, was on the plane, said the families hope to raise US$15 million to fund an initial search north of the previous search area.

“We won’t start fundraising until we’re sure that the governments are not going to resume the search and until the current data has been fully reviewed and analysed,” she said at the campaign launch and MH370 memorial event at a mall in Kuala Lumpur.
 
Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai, who attended the event, said authorities had analysed 27 pieces of potential MH370 debris along the East African coastline, including two new pieces found in South Africa two weeks ago.

The government has also signed several agreements with countries along the East African coastline to coordinate searches for debris, Liow said.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mystery-of-flight-370-as-deep-as-ever-three-years-later/

CBS/AP/ March 8, 2017, 5:47 AM
Mystery of Flight 370 as deep as ever, three years later

CANBERRA, Australia -- The Australian government minister in charge of the suspended seabed search for a Malaysia Airlines jet told victims’ families and friends at an anniversary church service Wednesday he remained hopeful that Flight 370 would be found.

“While to date we have been unsuccessful, we remain hopeful that at some stage in the future, there will be a breakthrough, the aircraft will be found, and we will be able to answer more of your questions,” said Darren Chester, minister for infrastructure and transport.

The Malaysian government said that although Australia, Malaysia and China in January suspended the sonar search for the airliner after a sweep of 46,000 square miles of the Indian Ocean, “We remain ever hopeful that we will be able to find the answers we seek when the credible evidence becomes available.”

Chester and Angus Houston, the former Australian defense chief who coordinated the early months of the search efforts, were among around 100 who attended the private ceremony at St. John’s Anglican Cathedral in the east city of Brisbane to mark the third anniversary of the mysterious tragedy.
 

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/08/asia/mh370-debris-found/

MH370: Here's what's been found from jetliner 3 years after it disappeared
By Faith Karimi, CNN
Updated 11:39 PM ET, Wed March 8, 2017