Missing plane’s search area to be expanded

Australia’s prime minister said on Monday the 28th April, 2014 that the underwater search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet will be expanded.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott told reporters in Canberra that the U.S. Navy’s Bluefin 21 has finished scouring the initial search area far off the Australian west coast and has not yet found anything.

Radar and satellite data show the jet carrying 239 passengers and crew veered far off course on March 8 for unknown reasons during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Analysis indicates it would have run out of fuel in the remote section of ocean where the search has been focused. Not one piece of debris has been recovered since the massive multinational hunt began.

The Bluefin’s original search area was a circle with a 10-kilometer radius, 4.5 kilometres deep around a spot where signals consistent with airplane black boxes were heard on April 8th, 2014.

Australian head of the search effort, Angus Houston, said- “We haven’t found anything anywhere that has any connection to MH370.”