The Australian team searching for the missing Malaysian Airline MH370, which disappeared almost two years ago, found another old shipwreck and still no sight of the aircraft.
According to Mashable, the team's underwater sonar equipment detected a man-made object while they were conducting extensive search along the Indian Ocean December 19. However, officials announced that the high-resolution images taken January 2 revealed that it was just another centuries-old shipwreck.
CNN reported that the Joint Agency Coordination Centre, the Australian team tasked to look for the lost Boeing 777, sent out another boat, Havila Harmony, to take the high-resolution pictures. The team let the Shipwreck Galleries of the Western Australian Museum experts analyse the images and found that it was a wreckage that dates back to the early 19th century.
The missing Malaysian Airline MH370 disappeared as it travelled from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing, China in March 2014. The aircraft had 239 passengers and crew on board. Mirror wrote that the JACC reported that the search for the aircraft will discontinue in June due to the lack of credible new information that would point them to the location of the lost aircraft.
"The expression 'like finding a needle in a haystack' shouldn't be used to describe (search-and-rescue) and recovery at sea," said security intelligence firm, the Soufan Group. "A more accurate expression would be like finding a drifting needle in a chaotic, color-changing, perception-shifting, motion-sickness-inducing haystack."
The search for the lost aircraft has proven to be very difficult. The team may have discovered a jet wing that washed up on an island in the Indian Ocean in 2015, but this was dismissed to be part of the missing Flight 370. The search team includes members coming from Malaysia, China and Australia, and they have surveyed two thirds of the search zone, which spreads about 46,000 square miles.
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