After three months of fruitless hunt for the missing Malaysia airlines flight MH370, Australia on Wednesday decided to hand over the daunting task of finding the aircraft to a private contractor, who will now have to scour the Indian Ocean down to a depth of 6,000 meters.
According to the tender documents, released by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), the next phase of the search for the plane -- which disappeared in the wee hours of 8 March, an hour in its journey from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing -- could take up to a year.
This comes a week after Australian officials declared that the area where acoustic signals or pings --thought to have been linked to the missing Malaysian flight were detected-- was not the final resting place of the aircraft.
The massive international search team found nothing, after the Bluefin-21 submersible robot was used to scale through every inch of the ocean floor, in what seemed to be three months of desperate attempts to find an answer to the most bizarre aviation mystery in recent history.
05/06/14 Gopi Chandra Kharel/IB Times
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According to the tender documents, released by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), the next phase of the search for the plane -- which disappeared in the wee hours of 8 March, an hour in its journey from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing -- could take up to a year.
This comes a week after Australian officials declared that the area where acoustic signals or pings --thought to have been linked to the missing Malaysian flight were detected-- was not the final resting place of the aircraft.
The massive international search team found nothing, after the Bluefin-21 submersible robot was used to scale through every inch of the ocean floor, in what seemed to be three months of desperate attempts to find an answer to the most bizarre aviation mystery in recent history.
05/06/14 Gopi Chandra Kharel/IB Times
