MH370 Update: Search for lost plane to resume this week

A Malaysian ship will soon resume sonar search of the Indian Ocean for the missing flight MH370.

The vessel ‘GO Phoenix’ is expected to arrive at the newly defined search area far off the West Australian coast on Wednesday.

After analysis of satellite data from the plane was refined, it was concluded that the aircraft may have entered the water in an area south of what was initially considered the top priority search zone.

‘GO Phoenix’ is scheduled to stay there for about 20 days before sailing to Fremantle to be resupplied. It will be joined by the ‘Fugro Discovery’, which is on its way to West Australia after undergoing fit-out work in South Africa.

The ‘Fugro Discovery’ is expected to arrive in Fremantle on Thursday. The ‘Fugro Equator’ will join the search around the end of October once it finishes sea floor mapping work currently under way.

MH370 disappeared with 239 people, including two New Zealanders, on board during its March 8 flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
 

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