MH370 search ends for good

THe search for flight MH370 was finally called off yesterday – despite officials admitting they have been looking in the wrong place.

Almost three years after the Boeing 777 went missing, aviation experts and the families of the 239 passengers and crew still do not know the aircraft’s whereabouts.

A £130million underwater operation which saw ships scouring 120,000 square km (46,000 square miles) off the coast of Western Australia did not find any evidence the plane had gone down in the area where it vanished. Last year the Joint Agency Coordination Centre – representing search teams from Australia, Malaysia and China – said new computer modelling suggested the most likely crash site was an area to the north of the search zone.

But with no agreement on further costs, the hunt has been called off for good, to the anger of relatives of those who were onboard the flight in March 2014.

Support group Voice 370 yesterday said that extending the search was ‘an inescapable duty owed to the flying public’.