Nearly more than six months after the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 with 239 people on board had gone missing, the hunt continues in the barren stretch of the Indian Ocean.
After months of searching to find the location of the ill-fated plane reportedly crash, the crew of the Go Phoenix continued its operation to look for of the missing aircraft in the bed of the Indian Ocean. The Phoenix is amongst the three ships that will be searching for the remains of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 that has gone missing on March 8 during a flight to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur.
The search has been temporarily stopped for a period of four months so crews can map the seabed of nearly 1, 800 kilometers (1,100 miles) west of Australia. The search zone lies along the 'seventh arc.' It is the ocean stretch where investigators believe the aircraft ran out of fuel and crashed.
The team is expected to spend 12 days for the search before returning to shore for refueling. Another two ships, which will be provided by Dutch contractor Fugro will also be joining to assist in the hunt for the missing aircraft later this month. The crews are using video cameras, sonar and jet fuel sensors to search the seabed for the missing BOEING 777 which vanished on March 8 for unknown reasons.
The ships are using towfish, dragging devices that can penetrate the water about 100 meters (330 feet) above the seabed. It is also designed with sensors which have the capacity to sense the occurrence of jet fuel. Anything that's connected with the exploration to find the vanished aircraft will be captured by a video camera to film the seabed.
Australian Transport Safety Bureau Chief Commissioner Martin Dolan has expressed optimism over the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines 370. Dolan's team is one of the groups leading the search in the Indian Ocean.
"We're confident in the analysis and we're confident that the aircraft is close to the seventh arc," Dolan claimed.
