The massive Indian Ocean search for the Malaysia Airlines plane which disappeared on March 8 carrying 239 people has so far failed to find any sign of the Boeing 777.
A Chinese ship mapping the ocean floor ahead of an intensive underwater search for missing Flight MH370 was returning to port on Saturday due to a technical problem, officials said.
The Chinese survey ship, Zhu Kezhen, was conducting a bathymetric survey – or mapping of the ocean floor – to help experts determine how to carry out the next stage of the search on the previously unmapped ocean seabed.
“Zhu Kezhen suffered a defect to its multibeam echosounder and is coming into port to conduct the necessary repairs,” Australia’s Joint Agency Coordination Centre said in a statement.
WHAT TO TAKE AWAY FROM THIS ARTICLE:
- A Chinese ship mapping the ocean floor ahead of an intensive underwater search for missing Flight MH370 was returning to port on Saturday due to a technical problem, officials said.
- The massive Indian Ocean search for the Malaysia Airlines plane which disappeared on March 8 carrying 239 people has so far failed to find any sign of the Boeing 777.
- To help experts determine how to carry out the next stage of the search on the previously unmapped ocean seabed.
