The New Zealand air force P- 3K2 Orion aircraft involved in the international search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will return to New Zealand Thursday, Defence Minister Jonathan Coleman said Wednesday.
Following a directive issued by the Australian government, Japan's Self-Defense Force (SDF) personnel who were deployed to help search for missing Malaysia Airlines jet were told Monday that their aerial searches have been disbanded.
Bluefin-21 has completed mission 15 with no results and has commenced mission 16 on Monday morning, according to the latest statement of the Joint Agency Coordination Center (JACC).
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Monday that the hunt for missing flight MH370 entered a new phase with seabed search to be expanded to a much larger area.
Bluefin-21 is currently completing mission 13 in the underwater search area and has now completed approximately 95 percent of the focused underwater search area with nothing found, the Joint Agency Coordination Center (JACC) confirmed in the latest update on Friday.
Visual search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 continues on Thursday in spite of the weather forecast of heavy rain and low cloud in the area more than 1,500 kilometers off Perth.
Chinese and Australian vessels will focus their search efforts in an expanded sea area in the next three days for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.
The government has not determined the overall cost of the search and recovery operation for the missing Malaysian flight MH370, Malaysian Deputy Transport Minister Ab Aziz Kaprawi said at the Dewan Negara (Upper House of the Parliament of Malaysia) Monday.
The Autonomous Underwater Vehicle ( AUV), Bluefin-21, is currently planing its next search mission after completing a full mission overnight, and 12 aircraft and 11 ships will assist in Thursday's search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370,, the Joint Agency Coordination Center (JACC) said on Thursday.
Up to 14 aircraft and 11 ships will assist in Wednesday's search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, while the autonomous underwater vehicle ( AUV) Bluefin 21 was again deployed Tuesday night from Ocean Shield for underwater searching, the Joint Agency Coordination Center ( JACC) confirmed on Wednesday.
As the search operation for missing Malaysian Airline flight MH370 enters the stage of underwater search, the autonomous underwater vehicle, Bluefin 21, undertook its first mission from Monday evening to early Tuesday morning.
Up to 11 aircraft and 11 ships will assist in Tuesday's search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, the Joint Agency Coordination Center (JACC) said on Tuesday.
A Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)AP-3C Orion aircraft has detected a possible signal in the vicinity of the Australian Defence Vessel Ocean Shield, Chief Coordinator of the Joint Agency Coordination Center (JACC) Angus Houston confirmed on Thursday.
Australian ship Ocean Shield has reacquired two more suspicious signals in the southern Indian Ocean during an intensified search for the missing Malaysian flight MH370 on Tuesday, while the weaker receipt suggests the multinational search team is running out of time to find the wreckage before the black box battery completely expires.
Chinese naval vessels on Tuesday expanded the search area in the Indian Ocean for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane in a bid to pick up suspicious pulse signals detected over the weekend.
An Australian ship detected two more acoustic events possibly from airplane black boxes in the past 24 hours in the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines MH370 in South Indian Ocean, Australian official announced Monday.
An Australian vessel searching the missing Malaysian flight 370 has detected electronic pulse signals probably related to the black box in the Indian Ocean during the past 24 hours, however the current unsuccessful effort to reacquire the signal later suggests the battery may finish in a very short time, the search official and U.S. Navy technician said on Monday.
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