Malaysia sends ship to join MH370 survey
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Malaysia will send a ship to the Indian Ocean to help with efforts to survey the seabed, as part of the ongoing search for flight MH370.
A Chinese military vessel, the Zhu Kezhen, and a Dutch private contractor are currently conducting a bathymetric survey of the sea floor in the area where the Malaysia Airlines plane is believed to have crashed. And Malaysia’s KD Mutiara vessel will now join the survey team in August.
This three-pronged effort is expected to complete the seabed survey by September, paving the way for a deep-water search.
According to the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC), which is coordinating the search effort, the Dutch Fugro Equator vessel has now surveyed more than 43,000km² of ocean, while the Zhu Kezhen has covered 25,000km².
The search area is located along the “seventh arc” – a long, thin line across the Indian Ocean that includes all the last known points of communication between the aircraft and tracking satellites.
Flight MH370 disappeared from radar screens en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on 8 March 2014, with 239 passengers and crew onboard.
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