Search for plane ends

AUSTRALIA said yesterday that it was holding out hope that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 would one day be found, as the last search of the seabed in the remote Indian Ocean where the plane was believed to have been lost was scheduled to end.

Malaysia said last week that the search by Texas-based company Ocean Infinity would end yesterday after two extensions of the original 90day time limit. Underwater sonar drones had searched more than 96,000 sq km of sea.

The Boeing 777 vanished on March 8, 2014.