Reunion Island (France) – Search for debris of the missing Malaysian Airline’s MH370 plane off the coast of the Indian Ocean island of Reunion ended on Monday without new discoveries.
Reunion Island’s Administrator, Dominique Sorain, made this known in a statement issued on Tuesday.
“In the absence of any new discovery of objects that can advance the ongoing investigations, it appears that the probability of finding more MH370 debris is extremely low‘’, the statement said.
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A 48-hour air search by a transport aircraft and three helicopters covered a total maritime zone of 10,000 square kilometers, along with 141-hour search efforts on land that began on Aug 7.
The army and security forces will remain vigilant during operations in the sea off the French island and along the coast, the statement added.
Flight MH370 went missing en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, and was believed to have crashed into the sea with 239 people on board, most of them Chinese. (Xinhua/NAN)