Search for Flight 370 to end

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia — The more than two-yearlong hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 will be suspended once the current search area in the Indian Ocean has been completely scoured, the countries conducting the operation announced Friday, possibly ending all hopes of solving aviation’s greatest mystery.

Some families of the lost plane’s 239 passengers and crew were angry over the decision to stop what is already the most expensive search in aviation history, having cost $178 million Cdn.

The Boeing 777 vanished on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014.