Canberra, Australia: Australia still plans to end the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 after the current undersea search zone has been covered unless a wing part found on a remote Indian Ocean island yields hard clues on the fate of the vanished aircraft, the country’s deputy prime minister said Monday.
Warren Truss, whose country is leading the southern Indian Ocean search and bearing most of the costs, said unless a small flap found on France’s Réunion Island last week revealed evidence of an explosion or structural failure changing calculations of where the aircraft may have come down, Australia expected to wrap up the search late next year.
“The experts are telling us that there is a 97% possibility that it is in that area, and if you move into a wider area there is just too much to be covered for a small chance of finding the aircraft,” Mr. Truss said in an interview.
03/08/15 Rob Taylor/Wall Street Journal
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Warren Truss, whose country is leading the southern Indian Ocean search and bearing most of the costs, said unless a small flap found on France’s Réunion Island last week revealed evidence of an explosion or structural failure changing calculations of where the aircraft may have come down, Australia expected to wrap up the search late next year.
“The experts are telling us that there is a 97% possibility that it is in that area, and if you move into a wider area there is just too much to be covered for a small chance of finding the aircraft,” Mr. Truss said in an interview.
03/08/15 Rob Taylor/Wall Street Journal
